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RiscV

Warning

This page document the first RISC-V cpu iteration done in SpinalHDL. The second iteration of this CPU is available there and already offer better perforance/area/features.

Features

RISC-V CPU

  • Pipelined on 5 stages (Fetch Decode Execute0 Execute1 WriteBack)

  • Multiple branch prediction modes : (disable, static or dynamic)

  • Data path parameterizable between fully bypassed to fully interlocked

Extensions

  • One cycle multiplication

  • 34 cycle division

  • Iterative shifter (N shift -> N cycles)

  • Single cycle shifter

  • Interruption controller

  • Debugging module (with JTAG bridge, openOCD port and GDB)

  • Instruction cache with wrapped burst memory interface, one way

  • Data cache with instructions to evict/flush the whole cache or a given address, one way

Performance/Area (on cyclone II)

  • small core -> 846 LE, 0.6 DMIPS/Mhz

  • debug module (without JTAG) -> 240 LE

  • JTAG Avalon master -> 238 LE

  • big core with MUL/DIV/Full shifter/I$/Interrupt/Debug -> 2200 LE, 1.15 DMIPS/Mhz, at least 100 Mhz (with default synthesis option)

Base FPGA project

You can find a DE1-SOC project which integrate two instance of the CPU with MUL/DIV/Full shifter/I$/Interrupt/Debug there :

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B-CqLXDTaMbKNkktb2k3T3lzcUk?usp=sharing

CPU/JTAG/VGA IP are pre-generated. Quartus Prime : 15.1.

How to generate the CPU VHDL

Warning

This avalon version of the CPU isn’t present in recent releases of SpinalHDL. Please considarate the VexRiscv instead.

How to debug

You can find the openOCD fork there :

https://github.com/Dolu1990/openocd_riscv

An example target configuration file could be find there :

https://github.com/Dolu1990/openocd_riscv/blob/riscv_spinal/tcl/target/riscv_spinal.cfg

Then you can use the RISCV GDB.

Todo

  • Documentation

  • Optimise instruction/data caches FMax by moving line hit condition forward into combinatorial paths.

Contact spinalhdl@gmail.com for more information