// Copyright 2018 ETH Zurich and University of Bologna. // Copyright and related rights are licensed under the Solderpad Hardware // License, Version 0.51 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in // compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at // http://solderpad.org/licenses/SHL-0.51. Unless required by applicable law // or agreed to in writing, software, hardware and materials distributed under // this License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR // CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the // specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. // // Author: Florian Zaruba, ETH Zurich // Date: 09.05.2017 // Description: Branch target calculation and comparison module branch_unit ( input logic clk_i, input logic rst_ni, input logic debug_mode_i, input ariane_pkg::fu_data_t fu_data_i, input logic [riscv::VLEN-1:0] pc_i, // PC of instruction input logic is_compressed_instr_i, input logic fu_valid_i, // any functional unit is valid, check that there is no accidental mis-predict input logic branch_valid_i, input logic branch_comp_res_i, // branch comparison result from ALU output logic [riscv::VLEN-1:0] branch_result_o, input ariane_pkg::branchpredict_sbe_t branch_predict_i, // this is the address we predicted output ariane_pkg::bp_resolve_t resolved_branch_o, // this is the actual address we are targeting output logic resolve_branch_o, // to ID to clear that we resolved the branch and we can // accept new entries to the scoreboard output ariane_pkg::exception_t branch_exception_o // branch exception out ); logic [riscv::VLEN-1:0] target_address; logic [riscv::VLEN-1:0] next_pc; // here we handle the various possibilities of mis-predicts always_comb begin : mispredict_handler // set the jump base, for JALR we need to look at the register, for all other control flow instructions we can take the current PC automatic logic [riscv::VLEN-1:0] jump_base; // TODO(zarubaf): The ALU can be used to calculate the branch target jump_base = (fu_data_i.operator == ariane_pkg::JALR) ? fu_data_i.operand_a[riscv::VLEN-1:0] : pc_i; target_address = {riscv::VLEN{1'b0}}; resolve_branch_o = 1'b0; resolved_branch_o.target_address = {riscv::VLEN{1'b0}}; resolved_branch_o.is_taken = 1'b0; resolved_branch_o.valid = branch_valid_i; resolved_branch_o.is_mispredict = 1'b0; resolved_branch_o.cf_type = branch_predict_i.cf; // calculate next PC, depending on whether the instruction is compressed or not this may be different // TODO(zarubaf): We already calculate this a couple of times, maybe re-use? next_pc = pc_i + ((is_compressed_instr_i) ? {{riscv::VLEN-2{1'b0}}, 2'h2} : {{riscv::VLEN-3{1'b0}}, 3'h4}); // calculate target address simple 64 bit addition target_address = $unsigned($signed(jump_base) + $signed(fu_data_i.imm[riscv::VLEN-1:0])); // on a JALR we are supposed to reset the LSB to 0 (according to the specification) if (fu_data_i.operator == ariane_pkg::JALR) target_address[0] = 1'b0; // we need to put the branch target address into rd, this is the result of this unit branch_result_o = next_pc; resolved_branch_o.pc = pc_i; // There are only two sources of mispredicts: // 1. Branches // 2. Jumps to register addresses if (branch_valid_i) begin // write target address which goes to PC Gen resolved_branch_o.target_address = (branch_comp_res_i) ? target_address : next_pc; resolved_branch_o.is_taken = branch_comp_res_i; // check the outcome of the branch speculation if ( ariane_pkg::op_is_branch(fu_data_i.operator) ) begin // Set the `cf_type` of the output as `branch`, this will update the BHT. resolved_branch_o.cf_type = ariane_pkg::Branch; // If the ALU comparison does not agree with the BHT prediction set the resolution as mispredicted. resolved_branch_o.is_mispredict = branch_comp_res_i != (branch_predict_i.cf == ariane_pkg::Branch); end if (fu_data_i.operator == ariane_pkg::JALR // check if the address of the jump register is correct and that we actually predicted && (branch_predict_i.cf == ariane_pkg::NoCF || target_address != branch_predict_i.predict_address)) begin resolved_branch_o.is_mispredict = 1'b1; // update BTB only if this wasn't a return if (branch_predict_i.cf != ariane_pkg::Return) resolved_branch_o.cf_type = ariane_pkg::JumpR; end // to resolve the branch in ID resolve_branch_o = 1'b1; end end // use ALU exception signal for storing instruction fetch exceptions if // the target address is not aligned to a 2 byte boundary always_comb begin : exception_handling branch_exception_o.cause = riscv::INSTR_ADDR_MISALIGNED; branch_exception_o.valid = 1'b0; branch_exception_o.tval = {{riscv::XLEN-riscv::VLEN{pc_i[riscv::VLEN-1]}}, pc_i}; // only throw exception if this is indeed a branch if (branch_valid_i && target_address[0] != 1'b0) branch_exception_o.valid = 1'b1; end endmodule