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2020-02-11Update STM32 demo driver.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2020-02-11More elegant way to do partial product recombination:Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
* take advantage of the cascade paths between DSP slices * decrease latency of operation
2020-02-03Increment version number.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2020-02-03New partial product recombination algorithm.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2020-02-03Improved debugging options:Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
* flush console after each ladder iteration for smoother progress output * ability to truncate internal powering ladder loop at desired step (this will only work when using simulation mode, obviously)
2020-02-03Adapted to the changes in the DSP slice wrappers.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2020-02-03Added new DSP slice OPMODEs for the new recombination algorithm.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2020-02-03Updated DSP slice wrappers for the new partial product recombination algorithm:Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
- unified clock enable for A:B and C ports - A:B and C ports now always have fixed 1-cycle latency - added new Z multiplexor modes in the generic wrapper
2020-02-03Better handling of debug output (no need to manally adjust word count anymore).Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2020-01-30Uniform testbenches.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2020-01-30This commit accomodates the changes made to DSP slice wrappers and also fixesPavel V. Shatov (Meister)
the subtle math overflow bug introduced while switching to DSP-based partial multiplication product recombination.
2020-01-30Accomodate the changes to DSP slice wrappers.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2020-01-30 * more consistent port namesPavel V. Shatov (Meister)
* optional two-stage pipeline for A&B ports
2020-01-30Cosmetic rename of FSM states.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2020-01-21Bump version number.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2020-01-21Cosmetic change to easily switch tests on/off.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2020-01-21Refactored the MMM module, now uses meaningful constant names from the includePavel V. Shatov (Meister)
file, not hardcoded widths.
2020-01-21Refactored MMM recombinator module, accomodated the changes in DSP slicePavel V. Shatov (Meister)
wrapper names.
2020-01-21Update DSP wrapper instance names.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2020-01-21The I/O manager has to work in sync with the general worker module. Made thePavel V. Shatov (Meister)
necessary changes to make it work after the general worker update. Also moved debug simulation-time code into a separate file.
2020-01-21Renumbered micro-operations.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2020-01-21Refactored modular reductor module.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2020-01-21Added more meaningful constants to avoid certain hardcoded numbers.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2020-01-21Tiny cosmetic typo fix ("dst" -> "dsp")Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2020-01-20For the new general worker module to work we need dynamic switching of DSPPavel V. Shatov (Meister)
OPMODE, ALUMODE and CARRYINSEL ports, thus more defined constants.
2020-01-20Updated uOP engine to match the changes made to the general worker modulePavel V. Shatov (Meister)
(modular subtraction was split into three micro-operations instead of one).
2020-01-20Updated microcode source to match the changes made to general worker module.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2020-01-20Cosmetic fix that only involves debug output during simulation.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2020-01-20Added two pairs of new wrappers.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2020-01-20Removed old DSP wrappers.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2020-01-20 * DSP slices now have two use modes: MULT and ADD/SUBPavel V. Shatov (Meister)
* cosmetic rename of Verilog include file
2020-01-16This commit modifies the REGULAR_ADD_UNEVEN micro-operation to use DSP slicesPavel V. Shatov (Meister)
for addition instead of fabric logic. This opcode is only necessary when in CRT mode and is executed once per entire exponentiation to recombine the two "easier" exponentiations. This was the final change necessary to get rid of using fabric math in the general worker module.
2020-01-16Reworked modular subtraction micro-operation. Previously it used "two-pass"Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
bank address space sweep, during the first pass (a-b) and (a-b+n) were computed, during the second pass either the former or the latter quantity was written to the output bank (depending on the very last borrow flag value). This is no longer possible, since the FSM now only generates one "interleaved" address space sweep. The solution is to split one complex modular subtraction operation into simpler sub-operations. Currently modular subtraction is achieved by running a sequence of three micro-operations: * MODULAR_SUBTRACT_X computes (a-b) and latches the final borrow flag * MODULAR_SUBTRACT_Y computes (a-b+n) * MODULAR_SUBTRACT_Z writes either (a-b) or (a-b+n) into the output bank depending on the latched value of the borrow flag Unfortunately we can't compute both (a-b) and (a-b+n) during one address space sweep, since fully pipelined adder/subtractor DSP slice has 2-cycle latency.
2020-01-16Turns out, fabric addition and subtraction in the general worker module arePavel V. Shatov (Meister)
actually in the critical paths of the ModExpNG core and are plaguing the place and route tools. I was barely able to achieve timing closure at 180 MHz even with the highest Map and PaR effort levels. This means that any further clock frequency increase is effectively impossible, moreover any small change in the design may prevent it from meeting timing constants. The obvious solution is to use DSP slices not only for modular multiplication, but also for supporting math operations. When fully pipelined, they can be clocked even faster then the block memory, so there definitely should not be any timing problems with them. The general worker module does three things that currently involve fabric-based math operations: * carry propagation (conversion to non-redundant repsesentation) * modular subtraction * regular addition This commit adds four DSP slice instances and makes the carry propagation opcode use DSP slice products instead of fabric logic.
2020-01-16Had to rework the general worker module to reach 180 MHz core clock. The modulePavel V. Shatov (Meister)
is responsible for doing certain supporting operations (mostly moving operands between banks and doing some simple math operations, such as modular subtraction and regular addition). Depending on the particular operation, one of three bank address space sweep patterns was used: * one-pass (for things like carry propagation) * two-pass (for things like modular subtraction that produce intermediate values in the process) * one-pass interleaved (for copying when only either CRT_?.X or CRT_?.Y is rewritten: we can only write to X and Y simultaneously, so we have to interleave reads from the source bank with reads from the destination bank and overwrite the destination with its just read value, otherwise the second destination operand is lost) I initially coded three FSMs, one for each of the address space sweeps and triggered one of them depending on the opcode, but that turned out too complicated. There's now only one FSM that always does the "one-pass interleaved" pattern, whereas the second read (from the destination bank) is inhibited when not need by the opcode.
2019-11-26One more cosmetic fix.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2019-11-26Cosmetic fix.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2019-11-26Forgot to push minor cosmetic fix.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2019-11-20Small change to the reductor module to try to get past 180 MHz. Previously BRAMPavel V. Shatov (Meister)
outputs were going directry into a LUT-based ternary adder which was causing timing problems. Added a layer of flip-flops, so instead of BRAM -> LUT -> FF we have BRAM -> FF -> LUT -> FF. This increases core latency by (number_of_supporting_modular_multiplications + number_of_exponent_bits) ticks.
2019-11-19Removed the latch accidentally created while pipelining the uOP engine module.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
The FSM previously had four states encoded using two bits, so the next state logic didn't have a default case, since all the possible states were used. Addition of the fifth state required one more state bit, so the FSM now has five states out eight possible and a default case is thus necessary.
2019-11-18Refactored reductor module.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2019-11-16The uOP engine didn't compile at 180 MHz. The pipeline had two stages: FETCHPavel V. Shatov (Meister)
and DECODE. Apparently one clock cycle is not enough to entirely decode an instruction, so decoding now takes two clock cycles (DECODE_1 and DECODE_2). This seems to solve the problem. If we run into more timing violations here, we can add an extra DECODE_3 cycle and register the currently combinatorial uop_opcode_* flags at DECODE_2. This fix increases the core's latency by 59/32 clock cycles (CRT/non-CRT mode) plus two extra clock cycles per each bit of the exponent.
2019-11-13Beautified the README.md, should look somewhat less nasty now.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2019-10-23Added missing copyright headers.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2019-10-23Added demo driver code for STM32.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2019-10-23Added readme file.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2019-10-23Fixed port width mismatch warning.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2019-10-23Added simulation-only code to measure multiplier load.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2019-10-23Fixed all the testbenches to work with the latest RTL sources.Pavel V. Shatov (Meister)
2019-10-21Reworked testbench, clk_sys and clk_core can now have any ratio, notPavel V. Shatov (Meister)
necessarily 1:2. Fixed compile-time issue where ISE fails to place two DSP slices next to each other, if A and/or B cascade path(s) between then are partially connected. Basically, if cascade is used, entire bus must be connected.