GRLIB GPL 2022.2 released

The development team is pleased to announce the release of GRLIB GPL 2022.2-b4274, which is now available for download from:

http://www.gaisler.com/products/grlib/grlib-gpl-2022.2-b4274.tar.gz

Bitfile and netlist packages are available via:

https://www.gaisler.com/index.php/downloads/leongrlib

The changelog is here:

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

and is also reproduced below.

Some of the highlights are:

  • NOEL-V v7 release: NOEL-V
  • Bug fixes and general improvements for LEON5 and NOEL-V
  • Bug fixes for SYNCFIFO_2P
  • General IP updates

Updated example bitstreams for LEON5 and NOEL-V are available for download from:

https://www.gaisler.com/index.php/products/processors/leon-examples

https://www.gaisler.com/index.php/products/processors/noel-examples

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

----------------------- Release 2022.2-b4274 ---------------------------

2022-06-21 SYNCFIFO_2P: Various fixes and updates to inferred FIFO:

  • write-side empty (wempty) and read-side full (rfull) signals did not immediately de-assert as expected after a write/read
  • Fix so that the almost-empty flag accounts for the state of the pipeline registers when pipelining is enabled (piperead=1).
  • Include the state of the pipeline registers in the write-side empty indication when piperead=1
  • Added rdhold generic that is passed through to the underlying syncram_2p instances. Enabling this will cause the outputs to remain valid after a read in fwft=0 mode.
  • For simulation, make dataout go to U when data is not guaranteed to be valid. This is to make it easier to detect bugs in interfacing IP.

2022-06-05 NOEL-V: release update:

  • Added support for ratified bit manipulation and simple crypto instructions (Zba/b/c/s, Zbkb/c/x).
  • Added counter filtering and overflow extension (Sscofpmf).
  • Added custom instructions and custom CSR for L1-cache control
  • Updated prom code accordingly.
  • Program buffer execute could be triggered when not in debug mode
  • Reset value for maskmax field in mcontrol triggers was incorrect
  • Added support for mtinst/htinst and corrected mstatus.gva
  • Corrected issue with a compressed hint instruction (c.lui x0, v) and illegal instruction (c.fswsp without F)
  • Hypervisor TLB handling was not handled correctly when no PMP was available. Handling of hPTEs (or PMP) entries smaller than PTE entries could be handled incorrectly.
  • Bugfix related to PMP
    Fixed issue with 0 at the top and for PMP TOR issues with reverse and null range and handling of range top alignment when the PMPADDR was not itself properly aligned
  • Bugfix related to FPU stalls and data forwarding.

2022-05-30 LEON5: Add additional pipeline register for data between debug masters and the debug module.

2022-05-08 GRDMAC2: Add type casts to pirq generic in order to work around synthesis tool issues

2022-03-28 Generic DDR3 simulation model: Improve Read-to-write and write-to-read timing checks.

2022-03-28 Generic DFI PHY simulation model: Workaround for issue with Riviera Pro.

2022-03-28 TECHMAP/SIMPLL: locktol generic on generic PLL model (sim_pll) was not exposed on the component.

2022-03-24 APBCTRL: Added access protection option.

2022-02-24 LEON5: Loads and atomics with cache/MMU bypass (ASI 0x1C) or from uncached memory areas (based on MMU cacheability setting or cached generic) did not trap as expected when getting an AHB error response.

There is a bug in this release.

noelv-digilent-arty-a7 fails to build because:

  • CFG_NOBUS is set to 0 in the config.vhd file

  • This means that the debug logic is enabled in noelvsys.vhd, however the component, ahb2ahb, does not appear to be any where in the release. (I can’t find a file called ahb2ahb.vhd or any grlib file that is declaring an entity by that name).

Because of this, the default design fails to build to bitstream. If I set CFG_NOBUS to 1, which it was on the previous release, it is successful.