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[HWPE] Microcode - lukamac - 05-04-2019
Hello,
I found a word document describing the HWPE Interface Specification, Rev 1.2, written in January 2018. by Francesco Conti.
I would like to use the microcode capabilities of the HWPE so I read there, since in the online Interface specification I couldn't find anything about it.
In this document, there was a mention of a Pythong script ucode_compile.py that should be able to compile some high-level code for the microcode processor.
Unfortunately, I could not find it so I have a few questions now.
Is the Microcode processor in the HWPE usable?
Is there somewhere such a "compiler" for microcode?
If it should be hardcoded, is there a specification of the instruction encoding? I found very little information about this in the document.
Thank you in advance!
RE: [HWPE] Microcode - kgf - 05-04-2019
Hello,
I am not sure if this helps, but Francesco was working on the following documentation:
https://hwpe-doc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
RE: [HWPE] Microcode - lukamac - 05-04-2019
(05-04-2019, 01:26 PM)kgf Wrote: Hello,
I am not sure if this helps, but Francesco was working on the following documentation:
https://hwpe-doc.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Thank you for your reply!
It does not help me. This is the online interface specification that I was referring to and in it, there is no mention of microcode.
Hopefully, it will be added later.
RE: [HWPE] Microcode - fconti - 05-06-2019
Hi lukamac, the ucode is "usable" but not 100% tested. The documentation you found in the old DOCX document is still valid, although I will be expanding it in the near future (I hope).
I suggest you start from here https://github.com/pulp-platform/hwpe-tb (a standalone testbench for our example HWPE). Once setup, you will find the ucode "compiler" and source code in the ips/hwpe-mac/ucode folder.
RE: [HWPE] Microcode - lukamac - 05-06-2019
Thank you fconti!
I will try that.