GRLIB GPL 2020.4 released

The development team is pleased to announce the release of GRLIB GPL 2020.4-b4261, which is now available for download from:

http://www.gaisler.com/products/grlib/grlib-gpl-2020.4-b4261.tar.gz

Bitfile and netlist packages are available via:

The changelog is here:

http://www.gaisler.com/products/grlib/Changelog.txt

and is also reproduced below.

Some of the highlights are:

  • The latest GPL version of LEON5, Cobham Gaisler’s next generation high-performance SPARC processors
  • The latest GPL version of NOEL-V, Cobham Gaisler’s RISC-V RV64GC processor
  • Updated endinanness support mechanism
  • General IP updates

If you find any any reproducible bugs or issues please don’t hesitate to post in the community.

----------------------- Release 2020.4-b4261 ---------------------------

2020-12-09 LEON5 processor updates

New features:
Support for clock gating added.

Updates:
Updates and fixes in debug module.
Cache controller fixes for diagnostic ASI access and region flush. Bug fixes for cmemconf=2 (single-port) configuration.
Fixes for scan test signal propagation to RAMs.
Syncram instantiations updated to use gatedwr generic.
Added simulation monitors for cache tag consistency and reading X over AHB.
Test software updated to add region flush and cache FT test, FPU test updated to run in parallel in multi-CPU config.

2020-12-07 GRFPU-lite : Provide additional netlists for Virtex-5 to support GRFPU-lite with data forwarding and non-blocking FPC as netlist.

2020-12-06 NOEL-V RISC-V processor update
Added support for standard configurations (TIN32, MIN64/32,
GPP64/32, HPP64/32). Updated support for FPU and atomic instructions.

2020-11-24 AHBRAM: byte select logic corrected for 64- and 128-bit accesses in wide AMBA buses (AHBDW > 64)

2020-11-09 TECHMAP: Add gatedwr generic to syncram, syncram_dp, syncramft. When the generic set to 1, an access with enable=0,write=1 will not cause a write, gating logic will be added to technologies that require it.

2020-10-29 Add a GRLIB-global config option to keep clock polarity of inverted clocks inverted also in test mode. The JTAG TAP is updated to honor this config option, other IP with inverted clocks have not been updated.

2020-10-29 Add a separate trstmux entity to perform the muxing of testrst in test mode, in order to easier identify the muxes in the synthesis flow. The AHBJTAG and inferred JTAG TAP are updated to use this entity, other IP with async reset have not been updated.

2020-10-28 Endian-ness support updated to allow for designs where different AHB buses may have different endianness. All cores must still have the same endian-ness as the AHB bus(es) they are connected to. Existing designs do not need to be changed.

On the AHBCTRL, an ahbendian generic is added to configure endianness of that AHB bus. If not set, this defaults to the global endian-ness setting in the grlib config package. The setting is communicated out via static signals added to the AHB master and slave records.

IP cores supporting both big and little endian may adjust the endian-ness automatically based on the signal coming through the AMBA record. IP cores supporting only one endianness or with endian-ness configured via a separate generic with instead have a simulation assert to ensure the AMBA bus configuration seen through the records matches what the IP core expects.

2020-10-21 AHB2AXI3B/AHB2AXI4b: Bugfix. Address of a single write operation on AHB bus can be transferred wrongly to AXI bus on certain conditions. Refer to GRLIB-TN-0019.

2020-10-05 TECHMAP: Move the allx packages into separate alltech directory and build before inferred to fix file compilation order issue when recompiling previously compiled designs with Riviera.