Turn sim's IP and MAC address into generics

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Turn sim's IP and MAC address into generics

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The ipbus simulation IP and MAC address are which doesn't go well with the concept of parallel integration jobs in the ci environment.

This issue can be easily mitigated by making these addresses top-level generics.

Answer 1 · 2018-05-25T10:57:29.000Z

Tested in simulation. After turning the 2 addresses into generics, it was possible to dynamically configure a custom ip address (192.168.201.2) from command line as follows

./vsim -c work.top -gIP_ADDR='X"c0a8c902"'