chipsalliance / chipsalliance/rocket-chip
[Feature request] RISC-V CMO support
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- Scala
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Description
I understand that Rocket Chip currently can support hardware prefetching when used with https://github.com/ucb-bar/bar-fetchers IPs in Chipyard.
It could also be useful to implement https://github.com/riscv/riscv-CMOs/blob/master/specifications/cmobase-v1.0.pdf to support software prefetch instructions
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Research direction
Start by reading the RISC-V CMO base specification and the Rocket Chip codebase, then compare its existing hardware-prefetching relationship with the bar-fetchers IPs used in Chipyard. Define the required software prefetch instructions and the affected Rocket Chip integration points; done means the specified CMO support is implemented and verified against the specification.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- scala
- Domain
- embedded-iot
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100