SiFive FE310-G000 User manual

SiFive FE310-G000 Manual
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• Rename chip to FE310-G000
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Contents
1 Introduction .............................................................................................................. 8
1.1 F 310-G000 Overview ................................................................................................ 8
1.2 31 RISC‑V Core ..................................................................................................... 10
1.3 Interrupts ................................................................................................................. 10
1.4 On-Chip Memory System...........................................................................................10
1.5 Always-On (AON) Block ............................................................................................10
1.6 GPIO Complex ......................................................................................................... 11
1.7 Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter.............................................................11
1.8 Hardware Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) ..................................................................11
1.9 Pulse Width Modulation.............................................................................................11
1.10 Debug Support ....................................................................................................... 11
2 List of Abbreviations and Terms .................................................................13
3 E31 RISC-V Core .................................................................................................. 15
3.1 Instruction Memory System........................................................................................15
3.2 Instruction Fetch Unit ................................................................................................16
3.3 xecution Pipeline .................................................................................................... 16
3.4 Data Memory System................................................................................................17
3.5 Atomic Memory Operations........................................................................................17
3.6 Hardware Performance Monitor..................................................................................17
4 emory ap ........................................................................................................... 18
5 Boot Process.......................................................................................................... 20
5.1 Non-volatile Code Options .........................................................................................20
5.1.1 Gate ROM (GROM)..........................................................................................20
5.1.2 Mask ROM (MROM)......................................................................................... 20
5.1.3 One-Time Programmable (OTP) Memory ...........................................................21
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5.1.4 Quad SPI Flash Controller (QSPI)......................................................................21
5.2 Reset and Trap Vectors ............................................................................................. 21
6 Clock Generation .................................................................................................22
6.1 Clock Generation Overview .......................................................................................22
6.2 PRCI Address Space Usage ......................................................................................23
6.3 Internal Trimmable Programmable 72 MHz Oscillator (HFROSC) ..................................23
6.4 xternal 16 MHz Crystal Oscillator (HFXOSC).............................................................24
6.5 Internal High-Frequency PLL (HFPLL) ........................................................................25
6.6 PLL Output Divider.................................................................................................... 28
6.7 Internal Programmable Low-Frequency Ring Oscillator (LFROSC) ................................28
6.8 Alternate Low-Frequency Clock (LFALTCLK)...............................................................29
6.9 Clock Summary ........................................................................................................ 29
7 Power odes.......................................................................................................... 31
7.1 Run Mode ................................................................................................................ 31
7.2 Wait Mode................................................................................................................ 31
7.3 Sleep Mode.............................................................................................................. 31
8 Interrupts.................................................................................................................. 33
8.1 Interrupt Concepts .................................................................................................... 33
8.2 Interrupt Operation.................................................................................................... 34
8.2.1 Interrupt ntry and xit .....................................................................................34
8.3 Interrupt Control Status Registers...............................................................................35
8.3.1 Machine Status Register (mstatus)..................................................................35
8.3.2 Machine Trap Vector (mtvec)............................................................................36
8.3.3 Machine Interrupt nable (mie).........................................................................36
8.3.4 Machine Interrupt Pending (mip).......................................................................37
8.3.5 Machine Cause (mcause).................................................................................38
8.4 Interrupt Priorities ..................................................................................................... 39
8.5 Interrupt Latency....................................................................................................... 39
9 Core-Local Interruptor (CLINT).....................................................................40
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9.1 CLINT Memory Map.................................................................................................. 40
9.2 MSIP Registers......................................................................................................... 41
9.3 Timer Registers ........................................................................................................ 41
10 Platform-Level Interrupt Controller (PLIC)...........................................42
10.1 Memory Map .......................................................................................................... 42
10.2 Interrupt Sources .................................................................................................... 43
10.3 Interrupt Priorities.................................................................................................... 44
10.4 Interrupt Pending Bits .............................................................................................. 44
10.5 Interrupt nables..................................................................................................... 45
10.6 Priority Thresholds .................................................................................................. 46
10.7 Interrupt Claim Process ...........................................................................................47
10.8 Interrupt Completion................................................................................................47
11 One-Time Programmable emory (OTP) Peripheral......................49
11.1 Memory Map .......................................................................................................... 49
11.2 Programmed-I/O lock register (otp_lock)................................................................50
11.3 Programmed-I/O Sequencing...................................................................................51
11.4 Read sequencer control register (otp_rsctrl)........................................................51
11.5 OTP Programming Warnings....................................................................................52
11.6 OTP Programming Procedure ..................................................................................52
12 Always-On (AON) Domain ............................................................................53
12.1 AON Power Source.................................................................................................54
12.2 AON Clocking......................................................................................................... 54
12.3 AON Reset Unit ...................................................................................................... 54
12.4 xternal Reset Circuit..............................................................................................54
12.5 Reset Cause........................................................................................................... 55
12.6 Watchdog Timer (WDT) ...........................................................................................55
12.7 Real-Time Clock (RTC)............................................................................................55
12.8 Backup Registers.................................................................................................... 55
12.9 Power-Management Unit (PMU)...............................................................................55
12.10 AON Memory Map.................................................................................................55
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13 Watchdog Timer (WDT) ..................................................................................58
13.1 Watchdog Count Register (wdogcount)...................................................................58
13.2 Watchdog Clock Selection ....................................................................................... 59
13.3 Watchdog Configuration Register (wdogcfg).............................................................59
13.4 Watchdog Compare Register (wdogcmp)...................................................................60
13.5 Watchdog Key Register (wdogkey)..........................................................................60
13.6 Watchdog Feed Address (wdogfeed).......................................................................61
13.7 Watchdog Configuration ..........................................................................................61
13.8 Watchdog Resets.................................................................................................... 61
13.9 Watchdog Interrupts (wdogip0)...............................................................................61
14 Power- anagement Unit (P U).................................................................62
14.1 PMU Overview........................................................................................................ 63
14.2 Memory Map .......................................................................................................... 63
14.3 PMU Key Register (pmukey)....................................................................................64
14.4 PMU Program......................................................................................................... 65
14.5 Initiate Sleep Sequence Register (pmusleep)...........................................................66
14.6 Wakeup Signal Conditioning ....................................................................................66
14.7 PMU Interrupt nables (pmuie) and Wakeup Cause (pmucause)...............................66
15 Real-Time Clock (RTC) ...................................................................................68
15.1 RTC Count Registers (rtccounthi/rtccountlo)...................................................68
15.2 RTC Configuration Register (rtccfg)......................................................................69
15.3 RTC Compare Register (rtccmp)............................................................................70
16 General Purpose Input/Output Controller (GPIO) ............................71
16.1 GPIO Instance in F 310-G000.................................................................................73
16.2 Memory Map .......................................................................................................... 73
16.3 Input / Output Values ............................................................................................... 74
16.4 Interrupts................................................................................................................ 74
16.5 Internal Pull-Ups ..................................................................................................... 74
16.6 Drive Strength......................................................................................................... 74
16.7 Output Inversion ..................................................................................................... 75
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16.8 HW I/O Functions (IOF) ...........................................................................................75
17 Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART)...............76
17.1 UART Overview ...................................................................................................... 76
17.2 UART Instances in F 310-G000...............................................................................76
17.3 Memory Map .......................................................................................................... 77
17.4 Transmit Data Register (txdata).............................................................................77
17.5 Receive Data Register (rxdata)..............................................................................78
17.6 Transmit Control Register (txctrl).........................................................................78
17.7 Receive Control Register (rxctrl)..........................................................................79
17.8 Interrupt Registers (ip and ie)................................................................................79
17.9 Baud Rate Divisor Register (div).............................................................................80
18 Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) ................................................................82
18.1 SPI Overview.......................................................................................................... 82
18.2 SPI Instances in F 310-G000 ..................................................................................82
18.3 Memory Map .......................................................................................................... 83
18.4 Serial Clock Divisor Register (sckdiv).....................................................................84
18.5 Serial Clock Mode Register (sckmode).....................................................................85
18.6 Chip Select ID Register (csid)................................................................................85
18.7 Chip Select Default Register (csdef).......................................................................86
18.8 Chip Select Mode Register (csmode)........................................................................86
18.9 Delay Control Registers (delay0 and delay1).........................................................87
18.10 Frame Format Register (fmt).................................................................................88
18.11 Transmit Data Register (txdata)...........................................................................89
18.12 Receive Data Register (rxdata)............................................................................90
18.13 Transmit Watermark Register (txmark)..................................................................90
18.14 Receive Watermark Register (rxmark)...................................................................90
18.15 SPI Interrupt Registers (ie and ip)........................................................................91
18.16 SPI Flash Interface Control Register (fctrl)..........................................................92
18.17 SPI Flash Instruction Format Register (ffmt)..........................................................92
19 Pulse Width odulator (PW ) ...................................................................94
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19.1 PWM Overview ....................................................................................................... 94
19.2 PWM Instances in F 310-G000 ...............................................................................95
19.3 PWM Memory Map .................................................................................................95
19.4 PWM Count Register (pwmcount)............................................................................96
19.5 PWM Configuration Register (pwmcfg).....................................................................97
19.6 Scaled PWM Count Register (pwms).........................................................................98
19.7 PWM Compare Registers (pwmcmp0–pwmcmp3)........................................................99
19.8 Deglitch and Sticky Circuitry...................................................................................100
19.9 Generating Left- or Right-Aligned PWM Waveforms .................................................101
19.10 Generating Center-Aligned (Phase-Correct) PWM Waveforms ................................101
19.11 Generating Arbitrary PWM Waveforms using Ganging ............................................103
19.12 Generating One-Shot Waveforms .........................................................................103
19.13 PWM Interrupts................................................................................................... 103
20 Debug .................................................................................................................... 104
20.1 Debug CSRs ........................................................................................................ 104
20.1.1 Trace and Debug Register Select (tselect)..................................................105
20.1.2 Trace and Debug Data Registers (tdata1-3)................................................105
20.1.3 Debug Control and Status Register (dcsr).....................................................106
20.1.4 Debug PC dpc .............................................................................................106
20.1.5 Debug Scratch dscratch.............................................................................106
20.2 Breakpoints .......................................................................................................... 106
20.2.1 Breakpoint Match Control Register mcontrol ................................................107
20.2.2 Breakpoint Match Address Register (maddress).............................................109
20.2.3 Breakpoint xecution ....................................................................................109
20.2.4 Sharing Breakpoints Between Debug and Machine Mode ................................109
20.3 Debug Memory Map..............................................................................................110
20.3.1 Component Signal Registers (0x100–0x1FF).................................................110
20.3.2 Debug RAM (0x400–0x43f)........................................................................111
20.3.3 Debug ROM (0x800–0xFFF)........................................................................111
21 Debug Interface................................................................................................ 112
21.1 JTAG TAPC State Machine ....................................................................................112
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21.2 Resetting JTAG Logic............................................................................................113
21.3 JTAG Clocking...................................................................................................... 113
21.4 JTAG Standard Instructions ...................................................................................114
21.5 JTAG Debug Commands .......................................................................................114
22 References.......................................................................................................... 115
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Chapter 1
Introduction
The F 310-G000 is the first Freedom 300 SoC, and forms the basis of the HiFive1 develop-
ment board for the Freedom 300 family. The F 310-G000 is built around the 31 Core Com-
plex instantiated in the Freedom 300 platform and fabricated in the TSMC CL018G 180nm
process. This manual serves as an architectural reference and integration guide for the
F 310-G000.
The F 310-G000 is compatible with all applicable RISC‑V standards, and this document should
be read together with the official RISC‑V user-level, privileged, and external debug architecture
specifications.
1.1 FE310-G000 Overview
Figure 1 shows the overall block diagram of the F 310-G000.
A feature summary table can be found in Table 1.
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F 310G-0000
31 Core Complex
GPIO Complex
Always-On Domain
P-Bus: TileLink B32 D32
QSPI0
Real-Time Clock
Platform-Level
Interrupt Control
TAPC
Debug Module
Debug RAM (28B)
Instruction Fetch
RV32IMAC
Branch Prediction
Inst. Decompressor
Instruction Buffer
M
MLoad/Store
dip
eip
sip
Instruction Cache
(16KiB, 2-way)
Instruction Cache Ref ll M
OTP (8KiB)
Data SRAM (16KiB)
UART0
QSPI1
M
JTAG
1.8V AON Core
erst_n
QSPI Flash
GPIO
Multiplier/Divider
Watchdog
Core-Local Interrupt
Control
Real-Time Clock Ticks
Backup Registers
PMU
Reset Unit
dwakeup_n
1.8V AON Pads
pmu_out_0
LFROSC
Mask ROM (8KiB)
Clock Generation
HFXOSC
PLL
HFROSC
vddpll
vsspll
hfxoscin
hfxoscout
UART1
PWM0 (8-bit)
PWM1 (16-bit)
QSPI2
C-Bus: TileLink B32 D32
A-Bus: TileLink B4 D32
M
hfclkrst
rtccmpip
wdogcmpip
Global
Interrupts
1.8V MOFF Core
3.3V MOFF Pads
Core Reset Sync corerst
pmu_out_1
psdlfaltclk
psdlfaltclksel
PWM2 (16-bit)
Figure 1: FE310-G000 top-level block diagram.
Table 1: FE310-G000 Feature Summary.
Feature Description Available in
QFN48
RISC-V Core
1× 31 RISC‑V cores with machine mode only, 16 KiB
2-way L1 I-cache, and 16 KiB data tightly integrated mem-
ory (DTIM).
✔
Interrupts Software and timer interrupts, 51 peripheral interrupts con-
nected to the PLIC with 7 levels of priority. ✔
UART 0 Universal Asynchronous/Synchronous Transmitters for
serial communication. ✔
UART 1 Universal Asynchronous/Synchronous Transmitters for
serial communication.
QSPI 0 Control Serial Peripheral Interface. QSPI 0 Control has 1 chip
select signal. ✔
QSPI 1 Serial Peripheral Interface. QSPI 1 has 4 chip select sig-
nals.
✔
(3 CS lines)
(2 DQ lines)
QSPI 2 Serial Peripheral Interface. QSPI 2 has 1 chip select sig-
nal.
PWM 0 8-bit Pulse-width modulator with 4 comparators. ✔
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Table 1: FE310-G000 Feature Summary.
Feature Description Available in
QFN48
PWM 1 16-bit Pulse-width modulator with 4 comparators. ✔
PWM 2 16-bit Pulse-width modulator with 4 comparators. ✔
GPIO 32 General Purpose I/O pins. ✔
(19 pins)
Always On
Domain Supports low-power operation and wakeup. ✔
1.2 E31 RISC‑V Core
The F 310-G000 includes a 32-bit 31 RISC‑V core, which has a high-performance single-
issue in-order execution pipeline, with a peak sustainable execution rate of one instruction per
clock cycle. The 31 core supports Machine mode only as well as standard Multiply, Atomic,
and Compressed RISC‑V extensions (RV32IMAC).
The core is described in more detail in Chapter 3.
1.3 Interrupts
The F 310-G000 includes a RISC-V standard platform-level interrupt controller (PLIC), which
supports 51 global interrupts with 7 priority levels. The F 310-G000 also provides the standard
RISC‑V machine-mode timer and software interrupts via the Core-Local Interruptor (CLINT).
Interrupts are described in Chapter 8. The CLINT is described in Chapter 9. The PLIC is
described in Chapter 10.
1.4 On-Chip emory System
The 31 core has a(n) 2-way set-associative 16 KiB L1 instruction cache and a(n) 16 KiB L1
DTIM.
The Level 1 memories are described in Chapter 3.
1.5 Always-On (AON) Block
The AON block contains the reset logic for the chip, an on-chip low-frequency oscillator, a
watchdog timer, connections for an off-chip low-frequency oscillator, the real-time clock, a pro-
grammable power-management unit, and 16×32-bit backup registers that retain state while the
rest of the chip is in a low-power mode.
Chapter 1 Introduction
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The AON can be instructed to put the system to sleep. The AON can be programmed to exit
sleep mode on a real-time clock interrupt or when the external digital wakeup pin, dwakeup_n, is
pulled low. The dwakeup_n input supports wired-OR connections of multiple wakeup sources.
The Always-On block is described in Chapter 12.
1.6 GPIO Complex
The GPIO complex manages the connection of digital I/O pads to digital peripherals, including
SPI, UART, and PWM controllers, as well as for regular programmed I/O operations.
The GPIO complex is described in more detail in Chapter 16.
1.7 Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
Multiple universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UARTs) are available and provide a
means for serial communication between the F 310-G000 and off-chip devices.
The UART peripherals are described in Chapter 17.
1.8 Hardware Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
There are 3 serial peripheral interface (SPI) controllers. ach controller provides a means for
serial communication between the F 310-G000 and off-chip devices, like quad-SPI Flash mem-
ory. ach controller supports master-only operation over single-lane, dual-lane, and quad-lane
protocols. ach controller supports burst reads of 32 bytes over TileLink to accelerate instruc-
tion cache refills. 1 SPI controller can be programmed to support eXecute-In-Place (XIP) modes
to reduce SPI command overhead on instruction cache refills.
The SPI interface is described in more detail in Chapter 18.
1.9 Pulse Width odulation
The pulse width modulation (PWM) peripheral can generate multiple types of waveforms on
GPIO output pins and can also be used to generate several forms of internal timer interrupt.
The PWM peripherals are described in Chapter 19.
1.10 Debug Support
The F 310-G000 provides external debugger support over an industry-standard JTAG port,
including 2 hardware-programmable breakpoints per hart.
Chapter 1 Introduction
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Debug support is described in detail in Chapter 20, and the debug interface is described in
Chapter 21.
Chapter 1 Introduction
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Chapter 2
List of Abbreviations and Terms
Term Definition
BHT Branch History Table
BTB Branch Target Buffer
RAS Return-Address Stack
CLINT Core-Local Interruptor. Generates per-hart software interrupts and timer
interrupts.
CLIC Core-Local Interrupt Controller. Configures priorities and levels for core
local interrupts.
hart HARdware Thread
DTI Data Tightly Integrated Memory
ITI Instruction Tightly Integrated Memory
JTAG Joint Test Action Group
LI Loosely Integrated Memory. Used to describe memory space delivered in
a SiFive Core Complex but not tightly integrated to a CPU core.
P P Physical Memory Protection
PLIC Platform-Level Interrupt Controller. The global interrupt controller in a
RISC-V system.
TileLink A free and open interconnect standard originally developed at UC Berke-
ley.
RO Used to describe a Read Only register field.
RW Used to describe a Read/Write register field.
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Term Definition
WO Used to describe a Write Only registers field.
WARL Write-Any Read-Legal field. A register field that can be written with any
value, but returns only supported values when read.
WIRI
Writes-Ignored, Reads-Ignore field. A read-only register field reserved for
future use. Writes to the field are ignored, and reads should ignore the
value returned.
WLRL
Write-Legal, Read-Legal field. A register field that should only be written
with legal values and that only returns legal value if last written with a
legal value.
WPRI
Writes-Preserve Reads-Ignore field. A register field that might contain
unknown information. Reads should ignore the value returned, but writes
to the whole register should preserve the original value.
Chapter 2 List of Abbreviations and Terms
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Chapter 3
E31 RISC-V Core
This chapter describes the 32-bit 31 RISC‑V processor core used in the F 310-G000. The
31 processor core comprises an instruction memory system, an instruction fetch unit, an exe-
cution pipeline, a data memory system, and support for global, software, and timer interrupts.
The 31 feature set is summarized in Table 2.
Table 2: E31 Feature Set
Feature Description
ISA RV32IMAC.
Instruction Cache 16 KiB 2-way instruction cache.
Data Tightly Integrated Memory 16 KiB DTIM.
Modes The 31 supports the following modes:
Machine
3.1 Instruction emory System
The instruction memory system consists of a dedicated 16 KiB 2-way set-associative instruction
cache. The access latency of all blocks in the instruction memory system is one clock cycle. The
instruction cache is not kept coherent with the rest of the platform memory system. Writes to
instruction memory must be synchronized with the instruction fetch stream by executing a
F NC .I instruction.
The instruction cache has a line size of 32 bytes, and a cache line fill triggers a burst access.
The core caches instructions from executable addresses. See the F 310-G000 Memory Map in
Chapter 4 for a description of executable address regions that are denoted by the attribute X.
Trying to execute an instruction from a non-executable address results in a synchronous trap.
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3.2 Instruction Fetch Unit
The 31 instruction fetch unit contains branch prediction hardware to improve performance of
the processor core. The branch predictor comprises a 40-entry branch target buffer (BTB) which
predicts the target of taken branches, a 128-entry branch history table (BHT), which predicts the
direction of conditional branches, and a 2-entry return-address stack (RAS) which predicts the
target of procedure returns. The branch predictor has a one-cycle latency, so that correctly pre-
dicted control-flow instructions result in no penalty. Mispredicted control-flow instructions incur a
three-cycle penalty.
The 31 implements the standard Compressed (C) extension to the RISC‑V architecture, which
allows for 16-bit RISC‑V instructions.
3.3 Execution Pipeline
The 31 execution unit is a single-issue, in-order pipeline. The pipeline comprises five stages:
instruction fetch, instruction decode and register fetch, execute, data memory access, and regis-
ter writeback.
The pipeline has a peak execution rate of one instruction per clock cycle, and is fully bypassed
so that most instructions have a one-cycle result latency. There are several exceptions:
• LW has a two-cycle result latency, assuming a cache hit.
• LH, LHU, LB, and LBU have a three-cycle result latency, assuming a cache hit.
• CSR reads have a three-cycle result latency.
• MUL, MULH, MULHU, and MULHSU have a 5-cycle result latency.
• DIV, DIVU, R M, and R MU have between a 2-cycle and 33-cycle result latency, depending
on the operand values.
The pipeline only interlocks on read-after-write and write-after-write hazards, so instructions
may be scheduled to avoid stalls.
The 31 implements the standard Multiply (M) extension to the RISC‑V architecture for integer
multiplication and division. The 31 has a 8-bit per cycle hardware multiply and a 1-bit per cycle
hardware divide. The multiplier can only execute one operation at a time and will block until the
previous operation completes.
The hart will not abandon a Divide instruction in flight. This means if an interrupt handler tries to
use a register that is the destination register of a divide instruction the pipeline stalls until the
divide is complete.
Branch and jump instructions transfer control from the memory access pipeline stage. Correctly-
predicted branches and jumps incur no penalty, whereas mispredicted branches and jumps
incur a three-cycle penalty.
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Most CSR writes result in a pipeline flush with a five-cycle penalty.
3.4 Data emory System
The 31 data memory system consists of a DTIM. The access latency from a core to its own
DTIM is two clock cycles for full words and three clock cycles for smaller quantities. Misaligned
accesses are not supported in hardware and result in a trap to allow software emulation.
Stores are pipelined and commit on cycles where the data memory system is otherwise idle.
Loads to addresses currently in the store pipeline result in a five-cycle penalty.
3.5 Atomic emory Operations
The 31 core supports the RISC‑V standard Atomic (A) extension on the DTIM and the periph-
eral memory region. Atomic memory operations to regions that do not support them generate an
access exception precisely at the core.
The load-reserved and store-conditional instructions are only supported on cached regions,
hence generate an access exception on DTIM and other uncached memory regions.
See The RISC‑V Instruction Set Manual, Volume I: User-Level ISA, Version 2.1 for more infor-
mation on the instructions added by this extension.
3.6 Hardware Performance onitor
The F 310-G000 supports a basic hardware performance monitoring facility compliant with The
RISC‑V Instruction Set Manual, Volume II: Privileged Architecture, Version 1.10. The mcycle
CSR holds a count of the number of clock cycles the hart has executed since some arbitrary
time in the past. The minstret CSR holds a count of the number of instructions the hart has
retired since some arbitrary time in the past. Both are 64-bit counters. The mcycle and
minstret CSRs hold the 32 least-significant bits of the corresponding counter, and the mcycleh
and minstreth CSRs hold the most-significant 32 bits.
Chapter 3 31 RISC-V Core
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