avadhpatel/marss

Use MARSS's cache module separately

amiralish opened this issue · 2 comments

amiralish commented

I'm wondering if the cache module can be used separately on some other platforms (if those platforms support an external module. e.g. Synposis Processor Designer, etc.) or it is only applicable in MARSS full-system simulator.

Thanks,
-Amir

avadhpatel commented

Yes you can convert cache code to a module, in early development we used to
do that, but that feature was never updated. The interface to access all
cache code is via MemoryController so you should be able to compile all
cache code into a module and use MemoryController interface to access any
cache.

  • Avadh

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 8:44 AM, amiralish notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm wondering if the cache module can be used separately on some other
platforms (if those platforms support an external module. e.g. Synposis
Processor Designer, etc.) or it is only applicable in MARSS full-system
simulator.

Thanks,
-Amir

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amiralish commented

Oh great. and there is no restriction on using cache module over Qemu
platform, right? I can just make it as a module code and access it via its
interface in any other platform, yes?

and also I assume that the interface to access cache from cpu is in
cpuController.h. So all needed to use the cache interface are:
cpuController.h and memoryController.h correct?

Thanks,
-Amir

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Avadh Patel notifications@github.comwrote:

Yes you can convert cache code to a module, in early development we used
to
do that, but that feature was never updated. The interface to access all
cache code is via MemoryController so you should be able to compile all
cache code into a module and use MemoryController interface to access any
cache.

  • Avadh

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 8:44 AM, amiralish notifications@github.com
wrote:

I'm wondering if the cache module can be used separately on some other
platforms (if those platforms support an external module. e.g. Synposis
Processor Designer, etc.) or it is only applicable in MARSS full-system
simulator.

Thanks,
-Amir

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