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Product Brief

The RV12 is a highly configurable single-issue, single-core RV32I, RV64I compliant RISC CPU intended for the embedded market. The RV12 is a member of the Roa Logic’s 32/64bit CPU family based on the industry standard RISC-V instruction set

The RV12 implements a Harvard architecture for simultaneous instruction and data memory accesses. It features an optimizing 6-stage pipeline, which optimizes overlaps between the execution and memory accesses, thereby reducing stalls and improving efficiency.

Optional features include Branch Prediction, Instruction Cache, Data Cache, and Debug Unit. Parameterised and configurable features include the instruction and data interfaces, the branch-prediction-unit configuration, and the cache size, associativity, and replacement algorithms. Providing the user with trade offs between performance, power, and area to optimize the core for the application

RV12 RISC-V Architecture

Documentation

Features

  • Royalty Free Industry standard instruction set (www.riscv.org)
  • Parameterized 32/64bit data
  • Fast, precise interrupts
  • Custom instructions enable integration of proprietary hardware accelerators
  • Single cycle execution
  • Optimizing folded 6-stage pipeline
  • Memory Protection Support
  • Optional/Parameterized branch-prediction-unit
  • Optional/Parameterized caches

Compatibility

The RV12 is compatible with the following RISC-V Foundation specifications:

Interfaces

  • AHB3 Lite

Parameters

The following parameters control the feature set of a specific implementation of the RV12:

Parameter Type Default Description
JEDEC_BANK Integer 0x0A JEDEC Bank
JEDEC_MANUFACTURER_ID Integer 0x6E JEDEC Manufacturer ID
XLEN Integer 32 Datapath width
PLEN Integer XLEN Physical Memory Address Size
PMP_CNT Integer 16 Number of Physical Memory Protection Entries
PMA_CNT Integer 16 Number of Physical Menory Attribute Entries
HAS_USER Integer 0 User Mode Enable
HAS_SUPER Integer 0 Supervisor Mode Enable
HAS_HYPER Integer 0 Hypervisor Mode Enable
HAS_RVM Integer 0 “M” Extension Enable
HAS_RVA Integer 0 “A” Extension Enable
HAS_RVC Integer 0 “C” Extension Enable
HAS_BPU Integer 1 Branch Prediction Unit Control Enable
IS_RV32E Integer 0 RV32E Base Integer Instruction Set Enable
MULT_LATENCY Integer 0 Hardware Multiplier Latency (if “M” Extension enabled)
ICACHE_SIZE Integer 16 Instruction Cache size in Kbytes
ICACHE_BLOCK_SIZE Integer 32 Instruction Cache block length in bytes
ICACHE_WAYS Integer 2 Instruction Cache associativity
ICACHE_REPLACE_ALG Integer 0 Instruction Cache replacement algorithm 0: Random 1: FIFO 2: LRU
DCACHE_SIZE Integer 16 Data Cache size in Kbytes
DCACHE_BLOCK_SIZE Integer 32 Data Cache block length in bytes
DCACHE_WAYS Integer 2 Data Cache associativity
DCACHE_REPLACE_ALG Integer 0 Data Cache replacement algorithm 0: Random 1: FIFO 2: LRU
HARTID Integer 0 Hart Identifier
PC_INIT Address h200 Program Counter Initialisation Vector
MNMIVEC_DEFAULT Address PC_INIT-‘h004 Machine Mode Non-Maskable Interrupt vector address
MTVEC_DEFAULT Address PC_INIT-‘h040 Machine Mode Interrupt vector address
HTVEC_DEFAULT Address PC_INIT-‘h080 Hypervisor Mode Interrupt vector address
STVEC_DEFAULT Address PC_INIT-‘h0C0 Supervisor Mode Interrupt vector address
UTVEC_DEFAULT Address PC_INIT-‘h100 User Mode Interrupt vector address
BP_LOCAL_BITS Integer 10 Number of local predictor bits
BP_GLOBAL_BITS Integer 2 Number of global predictor bits
BREAKPOINTS Integer 3 Number of hardware breakpoints
TECHNOLOGY String GENERIC Target Silicon Technology

License

Released under the RoaLogic Non-Commercial License

Dependencies

Requires the Roa Logic Memories IPs and AHB3Lite Package. These are included as submodules.

After cloning the RV12 git repository, perform a git submodule init to download the submodules.