Include

Nu+ Defines

The Nu+ Define incude file (nuplus_defines.sv) stores global define at core level. Parameters, such as number of hardware lanes, number of register per register file, or memory address width, are defined in this file:

`define HW_LANE                 16
`define ADDRESS_SIZE            32
`define REGISTER_NUMBER         64

along with information on special purpose registers:

`define PC_REG                  ( `REGISTER_NUMBER - 1 )
`define RA_REG                  ( `REGISTER_NUMBER - 2 )
`define SP_REG                  ( `REGISTER_NUMBER - 3 )
`define FP_REG                  ( `REGISTER_NUMBER - 4 )
`define MASK_REG                ( `REGISTER_NUMBER - 5 )

User Defines

The User Defines include file (nuplus_user_defines.sv) exposes to the final user all the configurable parameters of the architecture. Typically those parameters are bound to be a power of two.

Core-side user defines: all the following are bound to be a power of two

• THREAD_NUMB: number of hardware thread instantiated, default 8.
• USER_ICACHE_SET: number of instruction cache sets, default 32.
• USER_ICACHE_WAY: number of instruction cache sets, default 4.
• USER_DCACHE_SET: number of data cache sets, default 32.
• USER_DCACHE_WAY: number of data cache sets, default 4.
• USER_L2CACHE_SET: number of L2 data cache sets, default 128.
• USER_L2CACHE_WAY: number of L2 data cache sets, default 8.
• NUPLUS_SPM: when defined allocates a scratchpad memory in each nu+ core.
• NUPLUS_FPU: when defined allocates a FPU in each nu+ core.

System-side user defines:

• DIRECTORY_BARRIER: when defined the manycore system supports a distributed directory mechanism spread over all tiles. Otherwise, it allocates a single centralized directory. The single-core version always has a centralized synchronization master.
• CENTRAL_SYNCH_ID: Centralized directory ID, used only when DIRECTORY_BARRIER is undefined.
• NoC_X_WIDTH: Network-on-Chip mesh x dimension width, default value 2, must be power of 2.
• NoC_Y_WIDTH: Network-on-Chip mesh x dimension width, default value 2, must be power of 2.
• TILE_MEMORY_ID: Memory Tile ID.
• TILE_H2C_ID: Host interface Tile ID.
• TILE_NUPLUS: number of tile with a nu+ core.
• IO_MAP_BASE_ADDR: base address of the non-coherent memory space dedicated for IO devices, default value 0xFF00_0000.
• IO_MAP_SIZE: width of the non-coherent memory space dedicated for IO devices, default value 0x00FF_FF00.

Furthermore, DISPLAY variables are defined, all commented by default. When a DISPLAY variable is active, it generates a file, under a folder named after the selected kernel. Each DISPLAY variable logs a defined kind of transaction, namely:

* DISPLAY_MEMORY: logs on file the memory state at the end of the kernel execution.
* DISPLAY_MEMORY_TRANS: logs on file all requests to the main memory.
* DISPLAY_INT: logs every integer operation in the integer pipeline, and their results.
* DISPLAY_CORE: enables log from the core (file display_core.txt).
* DISPLAY_ISSUE: logs all scheduled instructions, and tracks the scheduled PC and the issued Thread, when DISPLAY_CORE is defined.
* DISPLAY_INT: logs all results from the integer module, when DISPLAY_CORE is defined.
* DISPLAY_WB: logs all results from the writeback module, when DISPLAY_CORE is defined.
* DISPLAY_LDST: enables logging into the load/store unit (file display_ldst.txt).
* DISPLAY_CACHE_CONTROLLER: logs memory transactions between Load/Store unit and the main memory.
* DISPLAY_SYNCH_CORE: logs synchronization requests within the core.
* DISPLAY_BARRIER_CORE: logs synchronization releases from the Synchronization master.
* DISPLAY_COHERENCE: logs all coherence transactions among CCs, DCs and MC.
* DISPLAY_THREAD_STATUS: displays all active threads status and trap reason.

These variables selectively enable the logging of a specific feature. For each define, a log file is typically created in nuplus/simulationlog/<name_of_the_kernel>/display_<name>. DISPLAY_SIMULATION_LOG variable has to be always defined in the simulation flow, this also displays architectural information on the tcl shell.