Refactors performance counters so only flops that are required from the
given parameters are explicitly elaborated without relying on
optimization to remove unused flops.
Fixes#473
The VerilatorSimCtrl class was always intended to be used only once in
an application, since it sets up a global signal handler and needs to be
accessible from DPI modules. This accessibility was achieved through a
global variable `simctrl`.
With this commit the VerilatorSimCtrl is switched to a singleton class.
The instance is accessible through `VerilatorSimCtrl::GetInstance()`.
The downside of that approach is that we loose the constructor
arguments, and need to deal with a class which potentially hasn't top or
the clock and reset signals set.
Support initialization of memory by loading content from ELF files.
All segments of the ELF file with the type `PT_LOAD` are merged into a
temporary buffer and then forwarded to a predefined memory.
This is an addition for setting the memories with VMEM files.
Memories must implement `simutil_verilator_set_mem` to support the
setting of values with a width of 32 bits. A return value of 0 must
indicate a successful operation and 1 an error.
Memories are defined by a call to `RegisterMemoryArea()` before the
execution of the simulation, at which point the arguments are parsed and
the initialization is started. The memories are identified by unique
name. The design specific location is used to set the SystemVerilog
scope.
Registered memories can be printed by using `-l list`. The unique name
is used for `-l name,file.elf` together with the file path.
An optional part of the argument is the type of the file, `elf` or
`vmem`, and if not provided it is attempted to detect the type by
looking at the file extension.
The memory specific arguments which already existed accept now also ELF
files. They use predefined names and are included to keep the interface
stable.
Contents of an ELF segment which has a bigger memory size than file size
are not set. This is typically required for BSS sections for zero-ing
the memory.
Move Xilinx specific code into shared folder so it can be re-used by
different examples.
Use the shared RAM code and make use of byte enable signal.
Fixeslowrisc/ibex#144
Simple system is a basic verilator top-level testbench for running
executables. It has functionality for outputting text to a log file
and for the software to terminate the simulation
This testbench was helpful in creating the initial tracer, but is not
fully working any more, and too limited to test the trace fully.
Extending it is inconvenient, as the creation of instruction sequences
through the bus interface is easy to get wrong.
- Add required signals to top-level
- Propagate error through fetch stages
- Add new exception type
- Update documentation for new exception type
- Resolves issue #109
This change is slighly painful, but a necessary cleanup around the
tracer.
- We now provide a separate core file for the tracer, called
"ibex_tracer.core" (in line with "ibex_tracer.sv"). The core is called
"lowrisc:ibex:ibex_tracer".
- The toplevel wrapper with tracing enabled got renamed to
"ibex_core_tracing.sv", and the core file is correspondingly called
"ibex_core_tracing.core. The core in it is called
"lowrisc:ibex:ibex_core_tracing".
- Finally to keep symmetry, the toplevel of Ibex itself got renamed in
the core file from "lowrisc:ibex:ibex" to "lowrisc:ibex:ibex_core".
This ensures that we have the same name for the core file, the source
entry point, and the core name.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
If you apply this change and use fusesoc, you need to adjust the name of
the core dependency from "lowrisc:ibex:ibex" to
"lowrisc:ibex:ibex_core".
