v2.2.0

Fixed

• Fix typo on the build instructions of the README
• Fix Gnuplot installation on GitHub's CI
• The number of elements requested by the Store Unit and the Element Requester now depends both on the requested eew and the past eew of the vector of the used register
• When the VRF is written and EMUL > 1, the eew of all the interested registers is updated
• Memory operations can change EMUL when EEW != VSEW
• The LSU now correctly handles bursts with a saturated length of 256 beats
• AXI transactions on an opposite channel w.r.t. the channel currently in use are started only after the completion of the previous transactions
• Fix the number of elements to be requested for a vslidedown instruction

Added

• benchmarks app to benchmark Ara
• CI task to create roofline plots of imatmul and fmatmul, available as artifacts
• Vector floating-point compare instructions (vmfeq, vmfne, vmflt, vmfle, vmfgt, vmfge)
• Vector single-width floating-point/integer type-convert instructions (vfcvt.xu.f, vfcvt.x.f, vfcvt.rtz.xu.f, vfcvt.rtz.x.f, vfcvt.f.xu, vfcvt.f.x)
• Vector widening floating-point/integer type-convert instructions (vfwcvt.xu.f, vfwcvt.x.f, vfwcvt.rtz.xu.f, vfwcvt.rtz.x.f, vfwcvt.f.xu, vfwcvt.f.x, vfwcvt.f.f)
• Vector narrowing floating-point/integer type-convert instructions (vfncvt.xu.f, vfncvt.x.f, vfncvt.rtz.xu.f, vfncvt.rtz.x.f, vfncvt.f.xu, vfncvt.f.x, vfncvt.f.f)
• Vector whole-register move instruction vmv<nr>
• Vector whole-register load/store vl1r, vs1r
• Vector load/store mask vle1, vse1
• Whole-register instructions are executed also if vtype.vl == 0
• Makefile option (trace=1) to generate waveform traces when running simulations with Verilator

Changed

• Add spill register at the lane edge, to cut the timing-critical interface between the Mask unit and the VFUs
• Increase latency of the 16-bit multiplier from 0 to 1 to cut an in-lane timing-critical path
• Widen CVA6's cache lines
• Implement back-to-back accelerator instruction issue mechanism on CVA6
• Use https protocol when cloning DTC from main Makefile
• Use https protocol for newlib-cygwin in .gitmodules
• Cut a timing-critical path from Addrgen to Sequencer (1 cycle more to start an AXI transaction)
• Cut a timing-critical path in the VSTU, relative to the calculation of the pointer to the VRF word received from the lanes
• Create ara_system wrapper containing Ara, Ariane, and an AXI mux, instantiated from within Ara's SoC
• Retime address calculation of the addrgen
• Push MASKU operand muxing from the lanes to the Mask Unit
• Reduce CVA6's default cache size
• Update Verilator to v4.214
• Update bender to v0.23.1

v2.1.0

Fixed

• Fix calculation of vstu's vector length
• Fix vslideup and vslidedown operand's vector length trimming
• Mute mask requests on idle lanes
• Mute instructions with vector length zero on the respective lane_sequencer and operand_requester
• Fix simd_div's offset calculation
• Delay acknowledgment of memory requests if the axi_inval_filter is busy

Added

• Format source files in the apps folder with clang-format by running make format
• Support for the 2_lanes, 8_lanes, and 16_lanes configurations, besides the default 4_lanes one

Changed

• Compile Verilator and Ara's verilated model with LLVM, for a faster compile time.
• Verilator updated to version v4.210.
• Verilation is done with a hierarchical verilation flow
• Replace ara_soc's LLC with a simple main memory
• Reduce number of words on the main memory, for faster Verilation
• Update common_cells to v1.22.1
• Update axi to v0.29.1

v2.0.0

Added

• Script to align all the elf sections to the AXI Data Width (the testbench requires it)
• RISC-V V intrinsics can now be compiled
• Add support for vsetivli, vmv<nr>r.v instructions
• Add support for strided memory operations
• Add support for stores misaligned w.r.t. the AXI Data Width

Changed

• Alignment with lowRISC's coding guidelines
• Update Ara support for RISC-V V extension to V 0.10, with the exception of the instructions that were already missing
• Replace toolchain from GCC to LLVM when compiling for RISC-V V extension
• Update toolchain and SPIKE support to RISC-V V 0.10
• Patches for GCC and SPIKE are no longer required
• Ara benchmarks are now compatible with RISC-V V 0.10

Fixed

• Fix vrf_seq_byte definition in the Load Unit
• Fix check to discriminate a valid byte in the VRF word, in the Load Unit
• Fix axi_addrgen_d.len calculation in the Address Generation Unit
• Correctly check whether the generated address corresponds to the vector load or the store unit
• Typos on the ChangeLog's dates
• Remove unwanted latches in the addrgen, simd_div, instr_queue, and decoder
• Fix vl == 0 memory operations bug. Ara correctly tells Ariane that the memory operation is over

v1.2.0

Added

• Hardware support for:
  • Vector slide instructions (vslideup, vslide1up, vfslide1up, vslidedown, vslide1down, vfslide1down)
• Software implementation of a integer 2D convolution kernel
• CI job to check the conv2d execution on Ara

Fixed

• Removed dependency to a specific gcc g++ version in Makefile
• Arithmetic and memory vector instructions with vl == 0 are considered as a NOP
• Increment bit width of the vector length type (vlen_t), accounting for vectors whose length is VLMAX
• Fix vector length calculation for the MaskB operand, which depends on vsew
• Fix typo on the vrf_pnt updating logic at the Mask Unit
• Update README to highlight dependency with Spike
• Update Bender's link dependency to the public CVA6 repository
• Retrigger the compile module if the ModelSim compilation did not succeed

Changed

• The encoding.h in the common Ara runtime is now a copy from the encoding.h in the Spike submodule

v1.1.1

Added

• Parametrization for FPU and FPU-specific formats support, through the FPUSupport ara_soc parameter

v1.1.0

1.1.0 - 2020-03-18

Added

• GitHub Actions-based CI
• Hardware support for:
  • Vector single-width floating-point fused multiply-add instructions (vfnmacc, vfmsac, vfnmsac, vfnmadd, vfmsub, vfnmsub)
  • Vector floating-point sign-injection instructions (vfsgnj, vfsgnjn, vfsgnjx)
  • Vector widening floating-point add/subtract instructions (vfwadd, vfwsub, vfwadd.w, vfwsub.w)
  • Vector widening floating-point multiply instructions (vfwmul)
  • Vector widening floating-point fused multiply-add instructions (vfwmacc, vfwnmacc, vfwmsac, vfwnmsac)
  • Vector floating-point merge instruction (vfmerge)
  • Vector floating-point move instruction (vfmv)

Changed

• Contributing guidelines updated to include commit message and C++ code style guidelines

v1.0.0

Added

• Hardware support for:
  • Vector single-width floating-point add/subtract instructions (vfadd, vfsub, vfrsub)
  • Vector single-width floating-point multiply instructions (vfmul)
  • Vector single-width floating-point fused multiply-add instructions (vfmacc, vfmadd)
  • Vector single-width floating-point min/max instructions (vfmin, vfmax)
• Software implementation of a floating-point matrix multiplication kernel

v0.6.0

Added

• Support for a coherent mode between Ara and Ariane
  • Snoop AW channel from Ara to L2
  • Invalidate Ariane's L1 cache sets accordingly
  • Coherent mode can be toggled together with consistent mode using the LSB of CSR 0x702

Changed

• Ariane's data cache is active by default
• The matrix multiplication kernel achieves better performance
  • It reports the performance and the utilization for several matrix sizes

v0.5.0

Added

• Hardware support for:
  • Vector single-width integer divide instructions (vdivu, vdiv, vremu, vrem)
  • Vector integer comparison instructions (vmseq, vmsne, vmsltu, vmslt, vmsleu, vmsle, vmsgtu, vmsgt)
• Runtime measurement functions
• Consistent mode which orders scalar and vector loads/stores.
  • Conservative ordering without address comparison
  • Consistent mode is enabled per default, can be disabled by clearing the LSB of CSR 0x702.

Fixed

• Ariane's accelerator dispatcher module was rewritten, fixing a bug where instructions would get skipped.
• The Vector Store unit takes the EEW of the source vector register into account to shuffle the elements before writing them to memory.

Changed

• Vector mask instructions (vmand, vmnand, vmandnot, vmxor, vmor, vmnor, vmornot, vmxnor) no longer require the non-compliant constraint that the vector length is divisible by eight.

v0.4.0

Added

• Hardware compilation with Verilator
• Software implementation of a matrix multiplication kernel

Changed

• The riscv_tests_simc Makefile target was deprecated. The riscv-tests are now run with the Verilated design, which can be called through the riscv_tests_simv Makefile target.
• The operand queues now take as a parameter the type conversions they support (currently, SupportIntExt2, SupportIntExt4, and SupportIntExt8)
• The Vector Multiplier unit now has independent pipelines for each element width.