We are planning on switching to a TileLink interconnect throughout and
convert to AXI only on the very edge. Therefore, we need to get rid of
all the existing AXI masters other than the TileLink to AXI converter.
* Get rid of DMA engine for now
* Connect RTC to TileLink interconnect instead of AXI interconnect
It turns out the Chisel C++ backend can't emit correct initialization
code for a 128 bit wide NastiROM. Rather than trying to fix Chisel, I'm
just going to hack up the backup memory port Verilog harness a bit more
to make it work.
Note that the backup memory port Verilog already couldn't take arbitrary
parameters for MIF_*, so it's not like we're losing any flexibility
here.
We need this to work for our chip, and it's not been tested in a long
time in upstream -- it didn't even used to build since the Nasti
conversion. This makes a few changes:
* Rather than calling the backup memory port parameters MEM_*, it calls
them MIF_* (to match the MIT* paramater objects). A new name was
necessary because the Nasti stuff is now dumped as MEM_*, which has
similar names but incompatible values.
* p(MIFDataBits) was changed back to 128, as otherwise the backup
memory port doesn't work (it only send half a TileLink transaction).
64 also causes readmemh to bail out, but changing the elf2hex parameters
works around that.
* A configuration was added that enabled the backup memory port in the
tester. While this is kind of an awkward way to do it, I want to
make sure I can start testing this regularly and this makes it easy to
integrate.
We're building a chip with 8 memory channels. Since this will require a
complicated test setup we want to also be able to bring up the chip with fewer
memory channels. This commit adds a SCR that controls the number of active
memory channels on a chip. Toggling this SCR will scramble memory and drop
Nasti messages, so it's only possible to change while the chip is booting.
By default this just adds a 1-bit SCR, which essentially no extra logic.
When multiple memory channel configurations are enabled at elaboration time, a
NastiMemoryInterconnect is generated for each channel configuration. The
number of outstanding misses is increased to coorespond to the maximum number
of banks per memory channel (added as a parameter), which I believe is
necessary to avoid deadlock in the memory system.
A configuration is added that supports 8 memory channels but has only 1 enabled
by default.
* DMA frontend-backend communication tunneled over TileLink/AXI
* Split MMIO and Mem requests in l1tol2net instead of in AXI interconnect
* Don't make NIOMSHRs configurable. Fixed at 1.
* Connect accelerator-internal CSRs into the CSR file
* Make mtvec register configurable and writeable
* Outermost TL parameters should have the width set to be the same as the
MIF data width.
* Broadcast Hub and Narrower, which use different sets of TL parameters
should use the proper set of parameters at each interface
