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Suggested Project Stages and Implementation These stages are not necessarily broken into equal weight; some may take considerably longer than others. The overall implementation and verification plan for the project is the following:
1. Stage One - Unpipelined -> Must demonstrate this in demo 1To start, you should do a single-cycle, non-pipelined implementation. Figure 4.24 on page 329 is a good place to start. For this stage, use the Single cycle perfect memory. Since you will need to fetch instructions as well as read or write data in the cycle, use two memories -- one for instruction memory and one for data. 2. Stage Two - Pipelined -> Must demonstrate this in demo 2After you have completed the single cycle implementation, you will next implement a pipelined version of the architecture. A good starting point is Figure 4.65 on page 384 of COD fourth edition. Continue to use the single cycle memory. Be sure that the non-pipelined version is functional before you try the pipelined version. While designing the non-pipelined version, make considerations that will allow easy conversion to the pipelined version. 3. Stage Three: Memory DesignThe next few steps will improve our memory and make it more realistic. 3.1 Aligned memoryAt this step, replace the original single-cycle memory with the Aligned single cycle memory. This is a very similar module, but it has an "err" output that is generated on unaligned memory accesses. Your processor should halt when an error occurs. Verify your design. 3.2 Stalling memory (Suggested Finish by 04/24)At this step, replace the single cycle memory with the Stalling memory. This is a very similar module, but has stall and done signals similar to the cache you built. Your pipeline will need to stall to handle these conditions. Verify your design.
3.3 Four-banked memoryThe simple memory module is still highly idealized. Real memory systems are pipelined and use multiple banks. You are provided with such a simple four-banked memory module that models a simple DRAM controller. I suggest that you do not interface this four-banked memory directly to your processor. Just use it to fetch blocks for your cache. This sub-step does not require verification. Make sure your design continues to compile. Proceed to stage 4. 4. Stage Four - Cache Design: -> Must demonstrate in Cache DemoImplement a functioning memory system that uses caches as described on the cache design page. 5. Stage Five - Direct-Mapped Cache:Replace your processor's memory modules with the cache modules. Again, follow an incremental approach like we did for the stalling memory.
6. Stage Five - Two-way Set-associative Cache (Suggested Finish May 1st)Add a second cache module alongside each of your existing cache modules, and implement a two-way set-associative memory. Use the 2-way set associative cache developed in homework 5. 7. Stage Six - optimizations to design and exceptions -> Final demo |
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