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Andrew Waterman fee5d2b1ea Remove parameters for some things that aren't parameterizable
Heads up @colinschmidt and @ccelio.  I'm removing these because
they are ISA constants and so are not truly parameters, so the
parameter place is not the place for them.  Since BOOM and Hwacha
both depend on rocket, you should be able to obtain them by
instantiating/extending rocket.HasCoreParameters.
2016-08-19 12:04:13 -07:00
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src/main/scala Remove parameters for some things that aren't parameterizable 2016-08-19 12:04:13 -07:00
.gitignore add .gitignore 2014-08-18 19:27:50 -07:00
build.sbt Add ability to generate libraryDependency on cde. 2015-10-22 11:37:20 -07:00
LICENSE add LICENSE 2014-09-12 15:36:42 -07:00
README.md update README 2014-09-17 11:23:25 -07:00

Rocket Core

Rocket is a 6-stage single-issue in-order pipeline that executes the 64-bit scalar RISC-V ISA. Rocket implements an MMU that supports page-based virtual memory and is able to boot modern operating systems such as Linux. Rocket also has an optional IEEE 754-2008-compliant FPU, which implements both single- and double-precision floating-point operations, including fused multiply-add.

This repository is not intended to be a self-running repository. To instantiate a Rocket core, please use the Rocket chip generator found in the rocket-chip git repository.

The following table compares a 32-bit ARM Cortex-A5 core to a 64-bit RISC-V Rocket core built in the same TSMC process (40GPLUS). Fourth column is the ratio of RISC-V Rocket to ARM Cortex-A5. Both use single-instruction-issue, in-order pipelines, yet the RISC-V core is faster, smaller, and uses less power.

ISA/Implementation ARM Cortex-A5 RISC-V Rocket R/A
ISA Register Width 32 bits 64 bits 2
Frequency >1 GHz >1 GHz 1
Dhrystone Performance 1.57 DMIPS/MHz 1.72 DMIPS/MHz 1.1
Area excluding caches 0.27 mm2 0.14 mm2 0.5
Area with 16KB caches 0.53 mm2 0.39 mm2 0.7
Area Efficiency 2.96 DMIPS/MHz/mm2 4.41 DMIPS/MHz/mm2 1.5
Dynamic Power <0.08 mW/MHz 0.034 mW/MHz >= 0.4