A tiny Open POWER ISA softcore written in VHDL 2008
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Paul Mackerras d4f51e08c8 divider: Return 0 for invalid and overflow cases, like P9 does
This adds logic to detect the cases where the quotient of the
division overflows the range of the output representation, and
return all zeroes in those cases, which is what POWER9 does.
To do this, we extend the dividend register by 1 bit and we do
an extra step in the division process to get a 2^64 bit of the
quotient, which ends up in the 'overflow' signal.  This catches all
the cases where dividend >= 2^64 * divisor, including the case
where divisor = 0, and the divde/divdeu cases where |RA| >= |RB|.

Then, in the output stage, we also check that the result fits in
the representable range, which depends on whether the division is
a signed division or not, and whether it is a 32-bit or 64-bit
division.  If dividend >= 2^64 or the result doesn't fit in the
representable range, write_data is set to 0 and write_cr_data to
0x20000000 (i.e. cr0.eq = 1).

POWER9 sets the top 32 bits of the result to zero for 32-bit signed
divisions, and sets CR0 when RC=1 according to the 64-bit value
(i.e. CR0.LT is always 0 for 32-bit signed divisions, even if the
32-bit result is negative).  However, modsw with a negative result
sets the top 32 bits to all 1s.  We follow suit.

This updates divider_tb to check the invalid cases as well as the
valid case.

This also fixes a small bug where the reset signal for the divider
was driven from rst when it should have been driven from core_rst.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
5 years ago
fpga Improve PLL/MMCM clocks configuration 5 years ago
hello_world
media Add title image 5 years ago
scripts New C based JTAG debug tool 5 years ago
sim-unisim
tests
.gitignore Update gitignore for new test bench build files 5 years ago
.travis.yml
LICENSE
Makefile Merge pull request #83 from paulusmack/logical 5 years ago
README.md Add logo to README.md 5 years ago
cache_ram.vhdl icache: Set associative icache 5 years ago
common.vhdl Merge pull request #81 from antonblanchard/logical 5 years ago
core.vhdl divider: Return 0 for invalid and overflow cases, like P9 does 5 years ago
core_debug.vhdl fetch/icache: Fit icache in BRAM 5 years ago
core_tb.vhdl Add core debug module 5 years ago
countzero.vhdl Fix count-leading/trailing-zeroes 5 years ago
cr_file.vhdl
crhelpers.vhdl
decode1.vhdl execute: Consolidate count-leading/trailing-zeroes implementations 5 years ago
decode2.vhdl decode2: Fix 32-bit flag passed to divider 5 years ago
decode_types.vhdl execute: Consolidate count-leading/trailing-zeroes implementations 5 years ago
divider.vhdl divider: Return 0 for invalid and overflow cases, like P9 does 5 years ago
divider_tb.vhdl divider: Return 0 for invalid and overflow cases, like P9 does 5 years ago
dmi_dtm_dummy.vhdl Fix build issue in dmi_dtm_dummy.vhdl 5 years ago
dmi_dtm_tb.vhdl
dmi_dtm_xilinx.vhdl Don't reset JTAG request register asynchronously 5 years ago
execute1.vhdl Don't infer latch for newcrf 5 years ago
execute2.vhdl
fetch1.vhdl fetch/icache: Fit icache in BRAM 5 years ago
fetch2.vhdl fetch2: Remove blank line 5 years ago
glibc_random.vhdl
glibc_random_helpers.vhdl
helpers.vhdl
icache.vhdl icache: Set associative icache 5 years ago
icache_tb.vhdl icache: Use narrower block RAMs 5 years ago
insn_helpers.vhdl Add MCRF instruction 5 years ago
loadstore1.vhdl
loadstore2.vhdl loadstore2: Do data formatting after a register stage 5 years ago
logical.vhdl Consolidate logical instructions 5 years ago
microwatt.core Fix cmod-a7 frequency 5 years ago
multiply.vhdl Multiply needs to be 16 stages to fix all timing issues 5 years ago
multiply_tb.vhdl
plru.vhdl icache: Set associative icache 5 years ago
plru_tb.vhdl plru: Add a simple PLRU module 5 years ago
ppc_fx_insns.vhdl Implement absolute branches 5 years ago
register_file.vhdl register_file: Move GPRs into distributed RAM 5 years ago
rotator.vhdl Add a rotate/mask/shift unit and use it in execute1 5 years ago
rotator_tb.vhdl Add a rotate/mask/shift unit and use it in execute1 5 years ago
sim_console.vhdl
sim_console_c.c
sim_jtag.vhdl Add jtag support in simulation via a socket 5 years ago
sim_jtag_socket.vhdl Add jtag support in simulation via a socket 5 years ago
sim_jtag_socket_c.c debug/sim: Make connect/disconnect messages quieter 5 years ago
sim_uart.vhdl
simple_ram_behavioural.vhdl
simple_ram_behavioural_helpers.vhdl
simple_ram_behavioural_helpers_c.c
simple_ram_behavioural_tb.bin
simple_ram_behavioural_tb.vhdl
soc.vhdl Tighten UART address 5 years ago
wishbone_arbiter.vhdl
wishbone_debug_master.vhdl
wishbone_types.vhdl
writeback.vhdl Add a divider unit and a testbench for it 5 years ago

README.md

Microwatt

Microwatt

A tiny Open POWER ISA softcore written in VHDL 2008. It aims to be simple and easy to understand.

Simulation using ghdl

MicroPython running on Microwatt

  • Build micropython. If you aren't building on a ppc64le box you will need a cross compiler. If it isn't available on your distro grab the powerpc64le-power8 toolchain from https://toolchains.bootlin.com
git clone https://github.com/mikey/micropython
cd micropython
git checkout powerpc
cd ports/powerpc
make -j$(nproc)
cd ../../../
  • Microwatt uses ghdl for simulation. Either install this from your distro or build it. Next build microwatt:
git clone https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt
cd microwatt
make
  • Link in the micropython image:
ln -s ../micropython/ports/powerpc/build/firmware.bin simple_ram_behavioural.bin
  • Now run microwatt, sending debug output to /dev/null:
./core_tb > /dev/null

Synthesis on Xilinx FPGAs using Vivado

  • Install Vivado (I'm using the free 2019.1 webpack edition).

  • Setup Vivado paths:

source /opt/Xilinx/Vivado/2019.1/settings64.sh
  • Install FuseSoC:
pip3 install --user -U fusesoc
  • Create a working directory and point FuseSoC at microwatt:
mkdir microwatt-fusesoc
cd microwatt-fusesoc
fusesoc library add microwatt /path/to/microwatt/
  • Build using FuseSoC. For hello world (Replace nexys_video with your FPGA board):
fusesoc run --target=nexys_video microwatt --memory_size=8192 --ram_init_file=/path/to/microwatt/fpga/hello_world.hex
  • To build micropython (currently requires 1MB of BRAM eg an Artix-7 A200):
fusesoc run --target=nexys_video microwatt

Testing

  • A simple test suite containing random execution test cases and a couple of micropython test cases can be run with:
make -j$(nproc) check

Issues

This is functional, but very simple. We still have quite a lot to do:

  • There are a few instructions still to be implemented
  • Need to add caches and bypassing (in progress)
  • Need to add supervisor state (in progress)