technische universiteit eindhoven Department of Electrical Engineering Electronic Systems Optimizing the mMIPS Sander Stuijk

Electronic Systems 2 Outline  Design flow  Understanding the assembler  Frequently asked questions  How do I recompile the compiler?  How can I abort a simulation?  How can I debug the mMIPS?  Where do I find the maximal frequency of my mMIPS?  Assignment

Electronic Systems 3 Toolflow LCC C Compiler Borland C++ Compiler LCC C Compiler Xilinx ISE Synopsys FPGA Compiler II Synopsys SystemC compiler Application (C source) mMIPS (C++ sources that use SystemC libraries) test implementation sw hw

Electronic Systems 4 Outline  Design flow  Understanding the assembler  Frequently asked questions  How do I recompile the compiler?  How can I abort a simulation?  How can I debug the mMIPS?  Where do I find the maximal frequency of my mMIPS?  Assignment

Electronic Systems 5 From C to assembler int main(void) { int a = 0; if (a == 0) return 0; else return 1; } 0: nop 4: 3c1c0001 lui gp,0x1 8: 279c0000 addiu gp,gp,0 c: 3c1d0002 lui sp,0x2 10: 27bd8000 addiu sp,sp, : 3c1e0002 lui s8,0x2 18: 27de8000 addiu s8,s8, c: 0c jal 0x80 20: nop 24: j 0x24 28: nop... 40: j 0x24 44: nop... 60: j 0x24 64: nop... 80: 27bdfff8 addiu sp,sp,-8 Bootloader End of program Actual program

Electronic Systems 6 The boot loader... 0: nop 4: 3c1c0000 lui gp,0x0 8: 279c24e2 addiu gp,gp,9442 c: 3c1d0000 lui sp,0x0 10: 27bd2800 addiu sp,sp, : 3c1e0000 lui s8,0x0 18: 27de2800 addiu s8,s8, c: 0c jal 0x80 20: nop 24: j 0x : j 0x : j 0x24 The program is terminated by a repeated jump to address 0x24. We can stop the simulation by detecting this jump. Skip first instruction Global pointer Stack pointer Frame pointer Call main function Terminate program

Electronic Systems 7 Outline  Design flow  Understanding the assembler  Frequently asked questions  How do I recompile the compiler?  How can I abort a simulation?  How can I debug the mMIPS?  Where do I find the maximal frequency of my mMIPS?  Assignment

Electronic Systems 8 How do I recompile the LCC compiler? 1.export LCCDIR=/cygdrive/c/ImageProcessing/lcc/lccdir 2.cd $LCCDIR/.. 3.make clean 4.make

Electronic Systems 9 How can I abort a simulation?  Use + to abort a running simulation.  VCD trace stored till point at which simulation is stopped.

Electronic Systems 10 How can I debug the mMIPS?  Create a small test program to check the newly added functionality  Create a VCD trace via a simulation  Compare the VCD trace with the assembler  Start at the beginning of the program  Does it do what you expect?

Electronic Systems 11 Where do I find the maximal frequency of my mMIPS?  You can find the maximal frequency of your design in XilinX ISE  Estimate is given by FPGA II Compiler

Electronic Systems 12 Outline  Design flow  Understanding the assembler  Frequently asked questions  How do I recompile the compiler?  How can I abort a simulation?  How can I debug the mMIPS?  Where do I find the maximal frequency of my mMIPS?  Assignment

Electronic Systems 13 Assignment  Optimize the run-time of an image processing algorithm running on the mMIPS. Allowed  Add special instructions to the mMIPS;  Change design of the mMIPS (e.g. forwarding). Not-allowed  Modification of the image processing algorithm that are not needed to use special instructions (e.g. replace multiply with shifts).

Electronic Systems 14 Testing and implementing the design Test for functional correctness  Run the original mMIPS with the algorithm to produce a reference output.  Compare the results of your mMIPS to the reference output. Implement your design on the FPGA  You must complete the flow till the FPGA. The maximum clock frequency at which your mMIPS can be synthesized is part of the performance.

Electronic Systems 15 Submitting your results 1.Login to ftp://ftp.es.ele.tue.nl using your username/password 2.Put all.cpp and.h files in the directory ‘final’ 3.Put ‘mips_rom.bin’ and ‘mips_ram.bin’ in the directory ‘final’ Remarks  We need a working mMIPS to test your changes  Put all files directly in the directory ‘final’ do not use subdirectories  The input/output locations of your image must be the same as in our program  Your input image is automatically replaced with a new image by our tools

Electronic Systems 16 Important dates  Test program available on Sunday 5/3 at 12.00h   Submit results at Tuesday 7/3 before 12.00h  Make sure you submit before the deadline. It’s a hard deadline!  Presentations on Thursday 9/3 and Friday 10/3  You will be informed about the schedule

Electronic Systems 17 Support and Information  Dominic Gawlowski - FPGA  Valentin Gheorghita - LCC  Sander Stuijk - SystemC  Each Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday between and 16.00h.  Look also at for information, tips, etc.

Electronic Systems 18 Questions?