They fit in the same part of the address space as DRAM would be, and
are coherent (because they are not cacheable).
They are currently limited to single cores without DRAM. We intend
to lift both restrictions, probably when we add support for
heterogeneous tiles.
Running rocket-chip through the chisel3 gsdt branch which supports stricter connection checks and uses implicit definitions to deal with "old" direction overrides, exposed a possible bug in the Scala compiler.
[error] .../src/main/scala/uncore/devices/Prci.scala:27: value asOutput is not a member of uncore.devices.PRCIInterrupts{val mtip: chisel3.core.Bool; val msip: chisel3.core.Bool}
[error] possible cause: maybe a semicolon is missing before `value asOutput'?
[error] }.asOutput
[error] ^
[error] one error found
[error] (uncore/compile:compileIncremental) Compilation failed
This change isn't strictly required for current chisel3 code, but is being submitted in anticipation of an eventual merge of the gsdt branch prior to a compiler fix.
This usually shouldn't be used in Tiles that are meant to be P&R'd once
and multiply instantiated, as their RTL would no longer be homogeneous.
However, it is useful for conditionalizing RTL generation for
heterogeneous tiles.
The previous approach used ex_reg_valid to determine whether to
source data from the FPU or RoCC. Thus, when the RoCC was not
present, it was still creating muxes. Using ex_cp_valid instead
gets rid of them.
- The DebugTransportModuleJtag is written in Verilog. It probably could be written in
Chisel except for some negative edge clocking requirement.
- For real implementations, the AsyncDebugBusTo/From is insufficient. This commit
includes cases where they are used, but because they are not reset asynchronously,
a Verilog 'AsyncMailbox' is used when p(AsyncDebug) is false.
- This commit differs significantly from the earlier attempt. Now, the
DTM and synchronizer is instantiated within Top, as it is a real piece of
hardware (vs. test infrastructure).
-TestHarness takes a parameter vs. creating an entirely new TestHarness class.
It does not make sense to instantiate TestHarness when p(IncludeJtagDTM) is false,
and it would not make sense to insantiate some other TestHarness if p(IncludeJtagDTM)
is true.
To build Verilog which includes the JtagDTM within Top:
make CONFIG=WithJtagDTM_...
To test using gdb->OpenOCD->jtag_vpi->Verilog:
First, install openocd (included in this commit)
./bootstrap
./configure --prefix=$OPENOCD --enable-jtag-vpi
make
make install
Then to run a simulation:
On a 32-bit core:
$(ROCKETCHIP)/riscv-tools/riscv-tests/debug/gdbserver.py \
--run ./simv-TestHarness-WithJtagDTM_... \
--cmd="$OPENOCD/bin/openocd --s $OPENOCD/share/openocd/scripts/" \
--freedom-e300-sim \
SimpleRegisterTest.test_s0
On a 64-bit core:
$(ROCKETCHIP)/riscv-tools/riscv-tests/debug/gdbserver.py \
--run ./simv-TestHarness-WithJtagDTM_... \
--cmd="$OPENOCD/bin/openocd --s $OPENOCD/share/openocd/scripts/" \
--freedom-u500-sim \
SimpleRegisterTest.test_s0
Initial cut
checkpoint which compiles and runs but there is some off-by-1 in the protocol
Debugging the clock crossing logic
checkpoint which works
Clean up the AsyncMailbox black box
This gets some leaf-level parameters out of the global parameterization,
better separating concerns. This commit also allows disabling the
M extension.
This is an unavoidably invasive commit, because it affects the unit tests
(which formerly exited using stop()), the test harness Verilog generator
(since it is no longer necessary), and the DRAM model (since it is no
longer connected). However, this should substantially reduce the effort
of building test harnesses in the future, since manual or semi-automatic
Verilog writing should no longer be necessary. Furthermore, there is now
very little duplication of effort between the Verilator and VCS test
harnesses.
This commit removes support for DRAMsim, which is a bit of an unfortunate
consequence. The main blocker is the lack of Verilog parameterization for
BlackBox. It would be straightforward to revive DRAMsim once support for
that feature is added to Chisel and FIRRTL. But that might not even be
necessary, as we move towards synthesizable DRAM models and FAME-1
transformations.
