The development team is pleased to announce the release of GRLIB GPL 2023.1-b4282, which is now available for download from:
https://www.gaisler.com/products/grlib/grlib-gpl-2023.1-b4282.tar.gz
Bitfile and netlist packages are available via:
The changelog is here:
https://www.gaisler.com/products/grlib/Changelog.txt
and is also reproduced below.
Some of the highlights are:
- NOEL-V and RISC-V peripherals updates: interrupt controller, watchdog, UART interface register, debug module, new ISA extensions, etc. Bug fixes and other improvements.
- LEON5: Improved store performance. Cache controller updates. Bug fixes and other improvements.
- APBUART: Fixed bug where two stopbits were only sent when parity was enabled. Modification of simulation mode (console=1).
- General IP updates
Updated example bitstreams for LEON5 and NOEL-V are available for download from:
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 2023.1-b4282 ---------------------------
2023-04-27 LEON5: Minor fix to snooping on stores. Stores and atomics to ASI 1 activated the snooping and caused the cache line to be invalidated unnecessarily.
2023-04-27 LEON5: Bug fix for diagnostic data cache tag access (ASI 0x0E). Valid bits could be read out incorrectly in configurations where the valid bits are held in flip flops (cmemconf=2).
2023-04-27 LEON5: Bug fixes for MMU TLB flush and probe (ASI 0x1B).
2023-04-18 LEON5: Bugfix for AHB retry corner case during DCache fetch
2023-04-11 LEON5: Bugfix for breaking execution from debug module while an atomic operation is in progress.
2023-04-06 NOEL-V: NOEL-V and RISC-V peripherals updates
- Added AIA interrupt controller (disabled in default config.)
- Added ACLINT to replacing CLINT
- Added UART interface register compatible with 16550 spec.
- Added RISC-V watchdog
- Debug module updates (removed internal AHB2AHB bridge)
- PnP for NOELVSYS is updated to place internal APB bus first.
- TLB flush updates (separate flush for sTLB and hTLB, Address/VMID/ASID matching)
- Added Diagnostic access to TLBs
- Update STVEC/VSTVEC to have 256 byte alignment in vectored mode.
- Added ISA extensions:
- Zcb, Zfhmin, Zfh, Smstateen
- Smepmp, Zicond, Zfa, Smrnmi (experimental)
- Bug fixes:
- Store byte followed by sfence.vma prevent update the cache
- Instruction c.zext.w was not illegal on 32-bit version
- Zicbom instructions could operate in incorrect cache line
- Incorrect mask for hedeleg
- Minor FPU updates
2023-03-30 LEON5: Minor fixes for debug module access while cache controller still has an ongoing access.
2023-03-27 SYNCFIFO_2P: Add scantest generic to propagate down to syncram_2p instances.
2023-03-06 LEON5: Increase number of timers in the gptimer in standard LEON5SYS configurations from 2 to 3.
2023-02-09 APBUART systest: Fix to the initial loop to fill the holding register to avoid X issues in simulation.
2023-02-07 LEON5: Bug fixes related to breaking/resuming execution and single stepping.
2023-01-30 APBUART: Modification of simulation mode (console=1). When console=1, reads of the status register now return values consistent with the transmitter shift register and transmitter FIFO being empty. This should make the console=1 configuration compatible with existing software. Notably, BCC2 was not entirely compatible prior to this change.
2023-01-23 LEON5: Cache controller updates:
- Added write combining feature for double stores, enabled via LEON5 configuration register bit. Combines stores to consecutive addresses into larger bursts up to cache line boundary.
- Minor change to debug access handling in order to remove some timing critical paths.
- Fixes to HPROT generation for store accesses, bit 1 not always reflecting supervisor status correctly for that store.
2023-01-11 LEON5: Various improvements / fixes related to stores
- Make stores propagate through to the AHB bus one cycle faster in some cases.
- Make HBURST drive HBURST_SINGLE for MMU page table accesses (to allow for re-arbitration in the AHB arbiter).
- Ensure bus lock is always dropped between locked store and any following regular stores.
- Bug fixes to HBUSREQ signal generation and RETRY/SPLIT handling during 32-bit write burst (double store to narrow area functionality added recently).
2022-12-21 APBUART:
- Fixed bug where two stopbits were only sent when parity was enabled.
- GRIP: stopbit setting has no effect on the receiver
- GRIP: corrected description of receiver input filtering
- GRIP: parity gen
2022-12-20 LEON5: Improved store performance when used with 32-bit AHB buses. Stores to narrow (32-bit) areas now go through the store buffer/FIFO without blocking the pipeline similar to the wider case, with double stores performed as two-beat bursts.
