On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 8:46 PM, R. Diez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> As previously mentioned on this e-mail list, I have forked the or1ksim Test
> Suite in order to reorganise it so that orbuild can run it not only against
> or1ksim, but against Verilog simulations too.
>
> I realised today that instruction l.extws is not working as expected. I'm
> still in the first development stages, so I might have made some silly
> mistake, but as I'm not getting any further I have decided to ask for help
> here.
>
> According to the specification, l.extws should just copy one register to
> another on 32-bit processors. On 64-bit processors it should also extend the
> sign bit, but that does not apply to the current implementation in ORPSoC
> V2.
>
> Test case OR1KSIM/testsuite/test-code-or1k/ext/ext.S contains the following
> line:
>
>  CHECK_MOVE(l.extws, 0x7fffffff)
>
> That produces the right results under or1ksim, that is, it prints 0x7fffffff
> before and after executing the instruction. However,
> when running on the ORPSoC V2 Verilog model, it prints 0x7fffffff before the
> instruction and 0xffffffff afterwards.
>
> I've tracked this issue down to this excerpt in file
> ORPSOCV2/rtl/verilog/or1200/or1200_alu.v :
>
> `ifdef OR1200_IMPL_ALU_EXT
>   always @(alu_op or alu_op2 or a) begin
>      casez (alu_op2)
>        `OR1200_EXTHBOP_HS : extended = {{16{a[15]}},a[15:0]};
>        `OR1200_EXTHBOP_BS : extended = {{24{a[7]}},a[7:0]};
>        `OR1200_EXTHBOP_HZ : extended = {16'd0,a[15:0]};
>        `OR1200_EXTHBOP_BZ : extended = {24'd0,a[7:0]};
>        default: extended = a; // Used for l.extw instructions
>      endcase // casez (alu_op2)
>   end
> `endif
>
> According to the spec, instruction l.extws has opcode 0x0 and opcode 0xd.
> After adding $display traces, I'm getting alu_op = 0x0d and alu_op2 = 0x0 at
> that point, which makes sense. However, the case statement only checks
> alu_op2, and not alu_op, so it does not go down the "default:" path, but it
> takes the OR1200_EXTHBOP_HS path. That's probably the reason why the results
> differ. I wonder if alu_op2 should actually be alu_op there.
>
> I'm not familiar with those instructions or the Verilog implementation. Can
> someone help here?

Hi Ruben,

It sounds like you've come across incorrect behaviour. Perhaps we
should be decoding for the extend-word instructions, too.

>
> I've looked again at the spec, and instructions l.extws and l.extwz seem
> unnecessary on 32-bit implementations. If you want to copy a register you
> can just issue a "l.ori Rdest, Rsource, 0". Is that right?

Yes, basically it should just be a register copy.

Can't look into it in detail today, but will check it out tomorrow,
but it looks like all we need to do is properly decode for the
extend-word case.

Cheers

Julius
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