3 == Ports ===========================================================
11 == TeX ==============================================================
13 The {\tt Memory} ship represents an interface to a storage space,
14 which can be used to read from it or write to it. This storage space
15 might be a fast on-chip cache, off chip DRAM, or perhaps even a disk
18 Generally, distinct {\tt Memory} ships do not access the same backing
19 storage, although this is not strictly prohibited.
21 Each {\tt Memory} ship may have multiple {\it interfaces}, numbered
22 starting with {\tt 0}. Each interface may have any subset of the
23 following docks: {\tt inCBD}, {\tt inAddrRead}, {\tt inAddrWrite},
24 {\tt inDataWrite}, and {\tt out}. If {\tt inCBD} or {\tt inAddrRead}
25 is present on an interface, then {\tt out} must be present as well.
26 If {\tt inAddrWrite} is present then {\tt inDataWrite} must be present
29 Each interface serializes the operations presented to it; this means
30 that an interface with both read and write capabilities will not be
31 able to read and write concurrently. Instead, a {\tt Memory} ship
32 with the ability to read and write concurrently should have two
33 interfaces, one which is read-only and one which is write-only.
35 There may be multiple {\tt Memory} ships which interface to the same
36 physical storage space. An implementation of Fleet must provide
37 additional documentation to the programmer indicating which {\tt
38 Memory} ships correspond to which storage spaces. A single {\tt
39 Memory} ship may also access a ``virtual storage space'' formed by
40 concatenating multiple physical storage spaces.
42 \subsection*{Code Bag Fetch}
44 When a word appears at the {\tt inCBD} port, it is treated as a {\it
45 code bag descriptor}, as shown below:
48 \setlength{\bitwidth}{3mm}
51 \bitheader[b]{36,6,5,0}\\
58 When a word arrives at the {\tt inCBD} port, it is treated as a memory
59 read with {\tt inAddrRead=Address}, {\tt inStride=1}, and {\tt
64 When a word is delivered to {\tt inAddrRead}, the word residing in
65 memory at that address is provided at {\tt out}. The {\tt c-flag} at
66 the {\tt out} port is set to zero.
70 When a word is delivered to {\tt inAddrWrite} and {\tt inDataWrite},
71 the word at {\tt inDataWrite} is written to the address specified by
72 {\tt inAddrWrite}. Once the word is successfully committed to memory,
73 the value {\tt inAddr+inStride} is provided at {\tt out} (that is, the
74 address of the next word to be written). The {\tt c-flag} at
75 the {\tt out} port is set to one.
79 Stride and count are not implemented.
81 We need a way to do an ``unordered fetch'' -- a way to tell the memory
82 unit to retrieve some block of words in any order it likes. This can
83 considerably accelerate fetches when the first word of the region is
84 not cached, but other parts are cached. This can also be used for
85 dispatching codebags efficiently -- but how will we make sure that
86 instructions destined for a given pump are dispatched in the correct
87 order (source sequence guarantee)?
89 A more advanced form would be ``unordered fetch of ordered records''
90 -- the ability to specify a record size (in words), the offset of the
91 first record, and the number of records to be fetched. The memory
92 unit would then fetch the records in any order it likes, but would be
93 sure to return the words comprising a record in the order in which
94 they appear in memory. This feature could be used to solve the source
95 sequence guarantee problem mentioned in the previous paragraph.
97 == Fleeterpreter ====================================================
98 private long[] mem = new long[0];
99 public long readMem(int addr) { return addr >= mem.length ? 0 : mem[addr]; }
100 public void writeMem(int addr, long val) {
101 if (addr >= mem.length) {
102 long[] newmem = new long[addr * 2 + 1];
103 System.arraycopy(mem, 0, newmem, 0, mem.length);
108 private Queue<Long> toDispatch = new LinkedList<Long>();
109 public void reset() {
114 public void service() {
115 if (toDispatch.size() > 0) {
116 if (!box_out.readyForDataFromShip()) return;
117 box_out.addDataFromShip(toDispatch.remove());
119 if (box_inCBD.dataReadyForShip()) {
120 long val = box_inCBD.removeDataForShip();
121 long addr = ((Interpreter)getFleet()).CBD_OFFSET.getval(val);
122 long size = ((Interpreter)getFleet()).CBD_SIZE.getval(val);
123 for(int i=0; i<size; i++)
124 toDispatch.add(readMem((int)(addr+i)));
125 } else if (box_inAddrWrite.dataReadyForShip() && box_inDataWrite.dataReadyForShip() && box_out.readyForDataFromShip()) {
126 writeMem((int)box_inAddrWrite.removeDataForShip(), box_inDataWrite.removeDataForShip());
127 box_out.addDataFromShip(0,true);
128 } else if (box_inAddrRead.dataReadyForShip() && box_out.readyForDataFromShip()) {
129 box_out.addDataFromShip(readMem((int)box_inAddrRead.removeDataForShip()),false);
133 == FleetSim ==============================================================
135 == FPGA ==============================================================
137 `define BRAM_ADDR_WIDTH 14
138 `define BRAM_SIZE (1<<(`BRAM_ADDR_WIDTH))
140 reg [(`WORDWIDTH-1):0] ram [((`BRAM_SIZE)-1):0];
141 reg [(`BRAM_ADDR_WIDTH-1):0] addr1;
142 reg [(`BRAM_ADDR_WIDTH-1):0] addr2;
143 reg [(`WORDWIDTH-1):0] out1;
144 reg [(`WORDWIDTH-1):0] out2;
148 reg [(`BRAM_ADDR_WIDTH-1):0] cursor;
149 reg [(`CODEBAG_SIZE_BITS-1):0] counter;
151 assign out_d_ = { out_w, out1 };
153 // I use "blocking assignment" here in order to facilitate BRAM inference
154 always @(posedge clk) begin
164 if (counter!=0) begin
165 if (`out_empty) begin
170 counter = counter - 1;
173 end else if (`inCBD_full) begin
174 cursor = inCBD_d[(`WORDWIDTH-1):(`CODEBAG_SIZE_BITS)];
175 counter = inCBD_d[(`CODEBAG_SIZE_BITS-1):0];
179 end else if (`out_empty && `inAddrRead_full) begin
180 addr1 = inAddrRead_d[(`WORDWIDTH-1):0];
185 end else if (`out_empty && `inAddrWrite_full && `inDataWrite_full) begin
190 addr2 = inAddrWrite_d[(`WORDWIDTH-1):0];
196 // this must appear at the end of the block, outside of any if..then's
198 ram[addr2] <= inDataWrite_d;
206 == Test ==============================================================
207 // Note: this only tests the read/write interfaces, not the inCBD interface
208 // FIXME: test c-flag at out dock
213 // ships required in order to run this code
215 #ship memory : Memory
236 send token to memory.inAddrRead;
245 == Constants ========================================================
247 == Contributors =========================================================
248 Adam Megacz <megacz@cs.berkeley.edu>