RV1	RISC-V CPU

This course covers and explains the implementation of the RISC-V CPU on FPGA platforms

Objective This course aims to highlight the the RISC-V architecture and the SiFive E31 core It has been developed for engineers developing low level software First, an Introduction of RISC-V ISA is provided, to highlight the differences between RISC-V modules Although the E31 RISC-V seems to a simple 32-bit core, it supports sophisticated mechanisms, such as Physical Memory Protection, Global and external interrupt and debug units The Microsemi Polarfire Implementation and Embedded Development Kit (EDK) with Libero SoC PolarFire and software Integrated Development environment (IDE) tools are described to create a hardware platform and the software to execute to program it The course also details the SiFive High performance TileLink Interface A more detailed course description is available on request at training@ac6-training.com A more detailed course description is available on request at training@ac6-training.com

Course environment Microsemi LiberoSoC PolarFire v2.2 and SoftConsole v5.2 AVMPF300TS (Microsemi PolarFire-based) board

Prerequisites Basic knowledge on processor and FPGA technology Knowledge of VHDL and C languages

First Day Introduction to RISC-V ISA Modules RV32-I/E and RV64-I/E Base Integer Instruction SET Integer Multiplication and division Atomic Instructions Floating Point precision(Single-double-Quad) Compressed Instructions SIMD instructions User-Level interrupts Privileged Architecture Control and Status Registers (CSRs) Machine-Level ISA Supervisor-Level ISA RISC-V Interrupts RISC-V Debug Support System Overview Debug Module RISC-V Debug Trigger Module Debug Transport Module SiFive E31 Core and Interfaces Core Complex Interfaces Memory Map Interrupts Platform-Level Interrupt Controller Core Local Interrupter (CLINT) Physical Memory Protection Second Day Libero SoC PolarFire Microsemi FPGA & SoC overview Libero SoC PolarFire overview Create and Design Constraint management TestBench and Simulations Program and Debug Microsemi tools Exercise:  Create a New Project Exercise:  TestBench, Simulation Exercise:  Synthesize the design Exercise:  Place & Route

Third Day Programming the RISC-V Core SoftConsole Overview and Firmware drivers Supported platforms Packages Related Microsemi Tools and resources RISC-V Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) SmartDebug Introduction and SmartDebug User Interface Debugging RISC-V project Debugging and Troubleshooting Exercise:  Building a RISC-V Processor subsystem Exercise:  Creating a RISC-V SoftConsole Project Exercise:  Managing interrupts and priorities Fourth Day AMBA AXI4 AXI architecture overview Overview Address Channels Data Response Channels Global and Low Power Interface Signals AXI Interconnection Architectures AXI vs AHB AHB – Advanced High Performance Bus Centralized address decoding Address gating logic Address pipelining Sequential transfers AHB-lite specification APB – Advanced Peripheral Bus Second-level address decoding Operation of the AHB-to-APB bridge APB3.0 new features SiFive TileLink Architecture Signal descriptions Serialization Operations and Messages

 

Duration	Cost	Calendar
4 days	2500 € HT
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