Another RISC-V ISA simulator.

This code is suitable to hard refactor at any time

This is another RISC-V ISA simulator, this is coded in SystemC + TLM-2.

Brief description of the modules:

• CPU: Top entity that includes all other modules.
• Memory: Memory highly based on TLM-2 example with read file capability
• Registers: Implements the register file and PC
• RISC_V_execute: Executes every ISA instruction
• Instruction: Decodes instruction and acces to any instruction field
• Simulation: Top-level entity that builds & starts the simulation

Current performance is about 166000 instructions / sec in a Core-i5@2.2Ghz

Helper classes:

• Performance: Performance indicators stores here (singleton class)
• Log: Log class to log them all (singleton class)

TODO

This is a preliminar and incomplete version.

Task to do:

• implement all missing instructions (RISC_V_execute)
• still unresolved data memory access (need to implement hierarchical socket from CPU to RISC_V_execute)
• Implement CSRs
• Add full support to .elf and .hex filetypes to memory.h (only partial .hex support)
• Connect some TLM peripherals
• Test, test, test & test. I'm sure there are a lot of bugs in the code

compile

In order to compile the project you need SystemC-2.3.2 installed in your system. Just change SYSTEMC path in Makefile.

$ make

Then, you need to modifiy your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environtment variable to add path systemc library. In my case:

$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/marius/Work/RiscV/code/systemc-2.3.2/lib-linux64

And then you can execute the simulator:

$ ./RISCV_TLM asm/BasicLoop.hex

Test

In the asm directory there are some basic assembly examples.

I "compile" one file with the follwing command:

$ cd asm
$ riscv32-unknown-linux-gnu-as  EternalLoop.asm
$ objcopy -O ihex a.out EternalLoop.hex
$ cd ..
$ ./RISCV_SCTLM asm/EternalLoop.hex

This example needs that you hit Ctr+C to stop execution.

Documentation

The code is documented using doxygen. In the doc folder there is a Doxygen.cfg file ready to be used.

Contribute

There are several ways to contribute to this project:

• Test
• Pull request are welcome (see TODO list)
• Good documentation

License

Copyright (C) 2018 Màrius Montón (@mariusmonton)

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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