A tiny Open POWER ISA softcore written in VHDL 2008
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Paul Mackerras e527e3a9b7 countzero: Reorganize to have fewer levels of logic and fewer LUTs
By using 4:1 multiplexers rather than 2:1, this cuts the number of
levels of multiplexing from 4 to 2 and also reduces the total number
of slice LUTs required.  Because we are now handling 4 bits at each
level, including the bottom level, the logic to do the priority
encoding can be factored out into a function that is used at each
level.

This rearranges the logic so that the encoding and selection of bits
is done whether or not the input operand is zero, and the if statement
testing whether the input is zero only affects what is assigned to
result.  With this we don't get the inferred latches and we can go
back to using signals rather than variables.

Also add some comments about what is being done.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@ozlabs.org>
5 years ago
fpga Fix clk_gen_bypass 5 years ago
hello_world Rebuild hello world assuming a 50MHz clock 5 years ago
media Add title image 5 years ago
scripts New C based JTAG debug tool 5 years ago
sim-unisim Add a debug (DMI) bus and a JTAG interface to it on Xilinx FPGAs 5 years ago
tests Initial import of microwatt 5 years ago
.gitignore Update gitignore for new test bench build files 5 years ago
.travis.yml Allow a full make check on Travis 5 years ago
LICENSE Initial import of microwatt 5 years ago
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 countzero: Reorganize to have fewer levels of logic and fewer LUTs 5 years ago
cr_file.vhdl Reformat CR file 5 years ago
crhelpers.vhdl Reformat crhelpers, and remove some stale code 5 years ago
decode1.vhdl mod* doesn't have an RC form 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 Wishbone debug module 5 years ago
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 Reformat execute2 5 years ago
fetch1.vhdl fetch/icache: Fit icache in BRAM 5 years ago
fetch2.vhdl fetch2: Remove blank line 5 years ago
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glibc_random_helpers.vhdl Reformat glibc_random 5 years ago
helpers.vhdl Reformat helpers 5 years ago
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 Reformat loadstore1 5 years ago
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 Reformat multiply_tb 5 years ago
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 Fix register file size (there are 32 gprs). 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 Reformat sim_console 5 years ago
sim_console_c.c Make sim poll non-blocking 5 years ago
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 Share soc.vhdl between FPGA and sim 5 years ago
simple_ram_behavioural.vhdl Reformat simple_ram_behavioural 5 years ago
simple_ram_behavioural_helpers.vhdl Reformat simple_ram_behavioural 5 years ago
simple_ram_behavioural_helpers_c.c Silence some loadstore related debug 5 years ago
simple_ram_behavioural_tb.bin Initial import of microwatt 5 years ago
simple_ram_behavioural_tb.vhdl Reformat simple_ram_behavioural 5 years ago
soc.vhdl Tighten UART address 5 years ago
wishbone_arbiter.vhdl Use a 3 way WB arbiter and cleanup fpga toplevel 5 years ago
wishbone_debug_master.vhdl Wishbone debug module 5 years ago
wishbone_types.vhdl Reformat wishbone code 5 years ago
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)