Release notes
Release notes
- Rocket-core (Chisel)
- Add core trace and software trace modules in each Rocket core using Chisel black-boxes.
- Add Chisel debug network to Rocket-chip to connect the debug modules in cores.
- Add a trace CSR (swtrace) for software trace triggering.
- Merge the latest (05-2016) updates from RISC-V.
- Use the shared TileLink MEM network and reduce code discrepancy with the upstream Rocket to be minimal.
- Updated
Configs.scala
and LowRISCChip.scala
to utilize new features from the upstream RISC-V.
- lowRISC-chip
- Add trace debugger from Open SoC Debug.
- Upgrade the IO side NASTI to a full NASTI interface.
- Rewrite the NASTI to NASTI-Lite interface in socip.
- Re-structure the SystemVerilog top level to use macros from Chisel compiler.
- Design environment
- A NEXYS4-DDR FPGA demo.
- Better Makefile support.
- Missing from this release vs the previous
- No tagged memory support (will be added back soon).
- No support for ZedBoard and KC705.
Previous releases