* [3.0 PDF](https://openpowerfoundation.org/?resource_lib=power-isa-version-3-0)
* [2.07 PDF](https://openpowerfoundation.org/?resource_lib=ibm-power-isa-version-2-07-b)
+## Overview of the user ISA:
+
+[Raymond Chen's PowerPC series](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180806-00/?p=99425)
+
+## OpenPOWER OpenFSI Spec (2016)
+
+* [OpenPOWER OpenFSI Spec](http://openpowerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/resources/OpenFSI-spec-100/OpenFSI-spec-20161212.pdf)
+
+* [OpenPOWER OpenFSI Compliance Spec](http://openpowerfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/resources/openpower-fsi-thts-1.0/openpower-fsi-thts-20180130.pdf)
+
+# Communities
+
+* <https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenPOWER/>
+* <http://lists.mailinglist.openpowerfoundation.org/pipermail/openpower-hdl-cores/>
+* <http://lists.mailinglist.openpowerfoundation.org/pipermail/openpower-community-dev/>
+
+
+# JTAG
+
+* [Useful JTAG implementation reference: Design Of IEEE 1149.1 TAP Controller IP Core by Shelja, Nandakumar and Muruganantham, DOI:10.5121/csit.2016.60910](https://web.archive.org/web/20201021174944/https://airccj.org/CSCP/vol6/csit65610.pdf)
+
+ Abstract
+
+ "The objective of this work is to design and implement a TAP controller IP core compatible with IEEE 1149.1-2013 revision of the standard. The test logic architecture also includes the Test Mode Persistence controller and its associated logic. This work is expected to serve as a ready to use module that can be directly inserted in to a new digital IC designs with little modifications."
+
# RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture
**PLEASE UPDATE** - we are no longer implementing full RISCV, only user-space
* [RISC-V Supervisor Binary Interface Specification](https://github.com/riscv/riscv-sbi-doc/blob/master/riscv-sbi.md)
Note: As far as I know, we aren't using the RISC-V V Extension directly
-at the moment. However, there are many wiki pages that make a reference
+at the moment (correction: we were never going to). However, there are many wiki pages that make a reference
to the V extension so it would be good to include it here as a reference
for comparative/informative purposes with regard to Simple-V.
+<https://github.com/riscv/riscv-v-spec/blob/master/v-spec.adoc#vsetvlivsetvl-instructions>
+
+# Radix MMU
+ - [Qemu emulation](https://github.com/qemu/qemu/commit/d5fee0bbe68d5e61e2d2beb5ff6de0b9c1cfd182)
+
+# D-Cache
+
+## D-Cache Possible Optimizations papers and links
+- [ACDC: Small, Predictable and High-Performance Data Cache](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2677093)
+
+# BW Enhancing Shared L1 Cache Design research done in cooperation with AMD
+- [Youtube video PACT 2020 - Analyzing and Leveraging Shared L1 Caches in GPUs](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CGIhOnt7F6s)
+- [Url to PDF of paper on author's website (clicking will download the pdf)](https://adwaitjog.github.io/docs/pdf/sharedl1-pact20.pdf)
# RTL Arithmetic SQRT, FPU etc.
* [Fast Floating Point Square Root](https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5060/4e9aff0e37089c4ab9a376c3f35761ffe28b.pdf)
* [Reciprocal Square Root Algorithm](http://www.acsel-lab.com/arithmetic/arith15/papers/ARITH15_Takagi.pdf)
+## CORDIC and related algorithms
+
+* <https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127> research into CORDIC
+* <https://bugs.libre-soc.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208>
+* [BKM (log(x) and e^x)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BKM_algorithm)
+* [CORDIC](http://www.andraka.com/files/crdcsrvy.pdf)
+ - Does not have an easy way of computing tan(x)
+* [zipcpu CORDIC](https://zipcpu.com/dsp/2017/08/30/cordic.html)
+* [Low latency and Low error floating point TCORDIC](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7784797) (email Michael or Cole if you don't have IEEE access)
+* <http://www.myhdl.org/docs/examples/sinecomp/> MyHDL version of CORDIC
+
## IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic (IEEE 754)
Almost all modern computers follow the IEEE Floating-Point Standard. Of
access. However, each of the Libre RISC-V members already have access
to the document.
+* [Lecture notes - Floating Point Appreciation](http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~markhill/cs354/Fall2008/notes/flpt.apprec.html)
+
+Among other things, has a nice explanation on arithmetic, rounding modes and the sticky bit.
+
+* [What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic](https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html)
+
+Nice resource on rounding errors (ulps and epsilon) and the "table maker's dilemma".
+
+## Past FPU Mistakes to learn from
+
+* [Intel Underestimates Error Bounds by 1.3 quintillion on
+Random ASCII – tech blog of Bruce Dawson ](https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2014/10/09/intel-underestimates-error-bounds-by-1-3-quintillion/)
+* [Intel overstates FPU accuracy 06/01/2013](http://notabs.org/fpuaccuracy)
+* How not to design an ISA
+ <https://player.vimeo.com/video/450406346>
+ Meester Forsyth <http://eelpi.gotdns.org/>
# Khronos Standards
The Khronos Group creates open standards for authoring and acceleration
* [OpenCL 2.2 Extension Specification](https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenCL/specs/2.2/html/OpenCL_Ext.html)
* [OpenCL 2.2 SPIR-V Environment Specification](https://www.khronos.org/registry/OpenCL/specs/2.2/html/OpenCL_Env.html)
+* OpenCL released the proposed OpenCL 3.0 spec for comments in april 2020
+
+* [Announcement video](https://youtu.be/h0_syTg6TtY)
+* [Announcement video slides (PDF)](https://www.khronos.org/assets/uploads/apis/OpenCL-3.0-Launch-Apr20.pdf)
+
Note: We are implementing hardware accelerated Vulkan and
OpenCL while relying on other software projects to translate APIs to
Vulkan. E.g. Zink allows for OpenGL-to-Vulkan in software.
<https://synappsis.wordpress.com/2017/06/03/opengl-over-vulkan-dev/>
+* Pixilica is heading up an initiative to create a RISC-V graphical ISA
+
+* [Pixilica 3D Graphical ISA Slides](https://b5792ddd-543e-4dd4-9b97-fe259caf375d.filesusr.com/ugd/841f2a_c8685ced353b4c3ea20dbb993c4d4d18.pdf)
+
+# 3D Graphics Texture compression software and hardware
+
+* [Proprietary Rad Game Tools Oddle Texture Software Compression](https://web.archive.org/web/20200913122043/http://www.radgametools.com/oodle.htm)
+
+* [Blog post by one of the engineers who developed the proprietary Rad Game Tools Oddle Texture Software Compression and the Oodle Kraken decompression software and hardware decoder used in the ps5 ssd](https://archive.vn/oz0pG)
+
# Various POWER Communities
- [An effort to make a 100% Libre POWER Laptop](https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/)
- I still can't figure out if its chip is POWER8 or POWER9. Please verify!
+ The T2080 is a POWER8 chip.
- [Power Progress Community](https://www.powerprogress.org/campaigns/donations-to-all-the-power-progress-community-projects/)
Supporting/Raising awareness of various POWER related open projects on the FOSS
community
* //TODO LINK TO RISC-V CONFORMANCE TEST
-## IEEE 754 Tests
+## IEEE 754 Testing/Emulation
-IEEE 754 has no official tests for floating-point but there are several
-well-known third party tools to check such as John Hauser's SoftFloat
-and TestFloat.
+IEEE 754 has no official tests for floating-point but there are
+well-known third party tools to check such as John Hauser's TestFloat.
+
+There is also his SoftFloat library, which is a software emulation
+library for IEEE 754.
* <http://www.jhauser.us/arithmetic/>
-Jacob is also making a Rust library to check IEEE 754 operations.
+Jacob is also working on an IEEE 754 software emulation library written
+in Rust which also has Python bindings:
-* <http://lists.libre-riscv.org/pipermail/libre-riscv-dev/2019-September/002737.html>
+* Source: <https://salsa.debian.org/Kazan-team/simple-soft-float>
+* Crate: <https://crates.io/crates/simple-soft-float>
+* Autogenerated Docs: <https://docs.rs/simple-soft-float/>
A cool paper I came across in my research is "IeeeCC754++ : An Advanced
Set of Tools to Check IEEE 754-2008 Conformity" by Dr. Matthias Hüsken.
verification as a final step in the development process before we produce
thousands or millions of silicon.
-Some learning resources I found in the community:
-
-* ZipCPU: <http://zipcpu.com/>
-
-ZipCPU provides a comprehensive tutorial for beginners and many exercises/quizzes/slides: <http://zipcpu.com/tutorial/>
+* Possible way to speed up our solvers for our formal proofs <https://web.archive.org/web/20201029205507/https://github.com/eth-sri/fastsmt>
+* Algorithms (papers) submitted for 2018 International SAT Competition <https://web.archive.org/web/20201029205239/https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/237063/sc2018_proceedings.pdf> <https://web.archive.org/web/20201029205637/http://www.satcompetition.org/>
-* Western Digital's SweRV CPU blog (I recommend looking at all their posts): <https://tomverbeure.github.io/>
-
-<https://tomverbeure.github.io/risc-v/2018/11/19/A-Bug-Free-RISC-V-Core-without-Simulation.html>
+Some learning resources I found in the community:
-<https://tomverbeure.github.io/rtl/2019/01/04/Under-the-Hood-of-Formal-Verification.html>
+* ZipCPU: <http://zipcpu.com/> ZipCPU provides a comprehensive
+ tutorial for beginners and many exercises/quizzes/slides:
+ <http://zipcpu.com/tutorial/>
+* Western Digital's SweRV CPU blog (I recommend looking at all their
+ posts): <https://tomverbeure.github.io/>
+* <https://tomverbeure.github.io/risc-v/2018/11/19/A-Bug-Free-RISC-V-Core-without-Simulation.html>
+* <https://tomverbeure.github.io/rtl/2019/01/04/Under-the-Hood-of-Formal-Verification.html>
## Automation
* <https://danluu.com/branch-prediction/>
-
# Python RTL Tools
+
* [Migen - a Python RTL](https://jeffrey.co.in/blog/2014/01/d-flip-flop-using-migen/)
* [LiTeX](https://github.com/timvideos/litex-buildenv/wiki/LiteX-for-Hardware-Engineers)
An SOC builder written in Python Migen DSL. Allows you to generate functional
RTL for a SOC configured with cache, a RISCV core, ethernet, DRAM support,
and parameterizeable CSRs.
* [Migen Tutorial](http://blog.lambdaconcept.com/doku.php?id=migen:tutorial>)
+* There is a great guy, Robert Baruch, who has a good
+ [tutorial](https://github.com/RobertBaruch/nmigen-tutorial) on nMigen.
+ He also build an FPGA-proven Motorola 6800 CPU clone with nMigen and put
+ [the code](https://github.com/RobertBaruch/n6800) and
+ [instructional videos](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEeZWGE3PwbbjxV7_XnPSR7ouLR2zjktw)
+ online.
* [Minerva](https://github.com/lambdaconcept/minerva)
An SOC written in Python nMigen DSL
-
+* Minerva example using nmigen-soc
+ <https://github.com/jfng/minerva-examples/blob/master/hello/core.py>
* [Using our Python Unit Tests(old)](http://lists.libre-riscv.org/pipermail/libre-riscv-dev/2019-March/000705.html)
* <https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/api/latest/chisel3/util/DecoupledIO.html>
* <http://www.clifford.at/papers/2016/yosys-synth-formal/slides.pdf>
+# Other
-## Other
+* <https://debugger.medium.com/why-is-apples-m1-chip-so-fast-3262b158cba2> N1
+* <https://codeberg.org/tok/librecell> Libre Cell Library
* <https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php/FSiC2019>
-
+* <https://fusesoc.net>
+* <https://www.lowrisc.org/open-silicon/>
+* <http://fpgacpu.ca/fpga/Pipeline_Skid_Buffer.html> pipeline skid buffer
+* <https://pyvcd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/vcd.gtkw.html> GTKwave
+* <http://www.sunburst-design.com/papers/CummingsSNUG2002SJ_Resets.pdf>
+ Synchronous Resets? Asynchronous Resets? I am so confused! How will I
+ ever know which to use? by Clifford E. Cummings
+* <http://www.sunburst-design.com/papers/CummingsSNUG2008Boston_CDC.pdf>
+ Clock Domain Crossing (CDC) Design & Verification Techniques Using
+ SystemVerilog, by Clifford E. Cummings
+ In particular, see section 5.8.2: Multi-bit CDC signal passing using
+ 1-deep / 2-register FIFO synchronizer.
+* <http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2016/EECS-2016-143.pdf>
+ Understanding Latency Hiding on GPUs, by Vasily Volkov
+* Efabless "Openlane" <https://github.com/efabless/openlane>
+* Co-simulation plugin for verilator, transferring to ECP5
+ <https://github.com/vmware/cascade>
+* Multi-read/write ported memories
+ <https://tomverbeure.github.io/2019/08/03/Multiport-Memories.html>
+* Data-dependent fail-on-first aka "Fault-tolerant speculative vectorisation"
+ <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.06185.pdf>
+* OpenPOWER Foundation Membership
+ <https://openpowerfoundation.org/membership/how-to-join/membership-kit-9-27-16-4/>
+* Clock switching (and formal verification)
+ <https://zipcpu.com/formal/2018/05/31/clkswitch.html>
+* Circuit of Compunit <http://home.macintosh.garden/~mepy2/libre-soc/comp_unit_req_rel.html>
+* Circuitverse 16-bit <https://circuitverse.org/users/17603/projects/54486>
+* Nice example model of a Tomasulo-based architecture, with multi-issue, in-order issue, out-of-order execution, in-order commit, with reservation stations and reorder buffers, and hazard avoidance.
+<https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Engineering/Courses/En164/Tomasulo_10.pdf>
# Real/Physical Projects
+
* [Samuel's KC5 code](http://chiselapp.com/user/kc5tja/repository/kestrel-3/dir?ci=6c559135a301f321&name=cores/cpu)
* <https://chips4makers.io/blog/>
* <https://hackaday.io/project/7817-zynqberry>
* <https://wiki.f-si.org/index.php/The_Raven_chip:_First-time_silicon_success_with_qflow_and_efabless>
* <https://mshahrad.github.io/openpiton-asplos16.html>
+# ASIC tape-out pricing
+
+* <https://europractice-ic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/General-MPW-EUROPRACTICE-200505-v8.pdf>
+
# Funding
+
* <https://toyota-ai.ventures/>
* [NLNet Applications](http://bugs.libre-riscv.org/buglist.cgi?columnlist=assigned_to%2Cbug_status%2Cresolution%2Cshort_desc%2Ccf_budget&f1=cf_nlnet_milestone&o1=equals&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&v1=NLnet.2019.02)
# Good Programming/Design Practices
+
* [Liskov Substitution Principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liskov_substitution_principle)
* [Principle of Least Astonishment](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_astonishment)
* <https://peertube.f-si.org/videos/watch/379ef007-40b7-4a51-ba1a-0db4f48e8b16>
* [Rust-Lang Philosophy and Consensus](http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2019/04/19/aic-adventures-in-consensus/)
-
-
* <https://youtu.be/o5Ihqg72T3c>
* <http://flopoco.gforge.inria.fr/>
-* Fundamentals of Modern VLSI Devices <https://groups.google.com/a/groups.riscv.org/d/msg/hw-dev/b4pPvlzBzu0/7hDfxArEAgAJ>
+* Fundamentals of Modern VLSI Devices
+ <https://groups.google.com/a/groups.riscv.org/d/msg/hw-dev/b4pPvlzBzu0/7hDfxArEAgAJ>
-# Broken Links
-* <http://www.crnhq.org/12-Skills-Summary.aspx?rw=c>
+# 12 skills summary
+
+* <https://www.crnhq.org/cr-kit/>
# Analog Simulation
* <http://ngspice.sourceforge.net/adms.html>
* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verilog-AMS#Open_Source_Implementations>
-# Libre-RISC-V Standards
+# Libre-SOC Standards
This list auto-generated from a page tag "standards":
# Server setup
-[[resources/server-setup/git-mirroring]]
+* [[resources/server-setup/web-server]]
+* [[resources/server-setup/git-mirroring]]
+* [[resources/server-setup/nagios-monitoring]]
+
+# Testbeds
+
+* <https://www.fed4fire.eu/testbeds/>
+
+# Really Useful Stuff
+
+* <https://github.com/im-tomu/fomu-workshop/blob/master/docs/requirements.txt>
+* <https://github.com/im-tomu/fomu-workshop/blob/master/docs/conf.py#L39-L47>
+
+# Digilent Arty
+
+* https://store.digilentinc.com/pmod-sf3-32-mb-serial-nor-flash/
+* https://store.digilentinc.com/arty-a7-artix-7-fpga-development-board-for-makers-and-hobbyists/
+* https://store.digilentinc.com/pmod-vga-video-graphics-array/
+* https://store.digilentinc.com/pmod-microsd-microsd-card-slot/
+* https://store.digilentinc.com/pmod-rtcc-real-time-clock-calendar/
+* https://store.digilentinc.com/pmod-i2s2-stereo-audio-input-and-output/
+
+# CircuitJS experiments
+
+* [[resources/high-speed-serdes-in-circuitjs]]
+
+# ASIC Timing and Design flow resources
+
+* <https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/asic-design-flow-introduction-timing-constraints-mahmoud-abdellatif/>
+* <https://www.icdesigntips.com/2020/10/setup-and-hold-time-explained.html>
+* <https://www.vlsiguide.com/2018/07/clock-tree-synthesis-cts.html>
+* <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_divider>
+
+# Geometric Haskell Library
+
+* <https://github.com/julialongtin/hslice/blob/master/Graphics/Slicer/Math/GeometricAlgebra.hs>
+* <https://github.com/julialongtin/hslice/blob/master/Graphics/Slicer/Math/PGA.hs>
+* <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1501.06511.pdf>
+* <https://bivector.net/index.html>