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official v0.8 release of vector spec reference simulator

Simon Davidmann Imperas
 

Krste, Roger

We have just released an update of our free riscvOVPsim reference simulator version: 20191217.0  and put it on the https://github.com/riscv/riscv-ovpsim.

riscvOVPsim supports the full latest Vector instruction v0.8 release and is available now.

Our policy is to update our free reference simulator as soon as the vector specification updates - normally 2-3 days after the vector spec is updated. [We need to do this as our customers who are creating silicon need up-to-the-minute reference model for verification.]

riscvOVPsim is a complete envelope model of the full RISC-V 32/64 specification and is configured by command line options.

An example from its documentation for the vectors (last months spec changes) is:
Version 0.8
Stable 0.8 official release (commit 9a65519), with these changes compared to version 0.8-draft-20191118:
- vector context status in mstatus register is now implemented;
- whole register load and store operations have been restricted to a single register only;
- whole register move operations have been restricted to aligned groups of 1, 2, 4 or 8 registers only.
Version 0.8-draft-20191118
Stable 0.8 draft of November 18 2019, with these changes compared to version 0.8-draft-20191117:
- vsetvl/vsetvli with rd!=zero and rs1=zero sets vl to the maximum vector length.
Version 0.8-draft-20191117
Stable0.8 draft of November 17 2019, with these changes compared to version 0.8-draft-20191004:
- indexed load/store instructions zero-extend offsets (previously, they were sign-extended);
- vslide1up/vslide1down instructions sign-extend XLEN values to SEW length (previously, they
were zero-extended);
- vadc/vsbc instruction encodings require vm=0 (previously, they required vm=1);
- vmadc/vmsbc instruction encodings allow both vm=0, implying carry input is used, and vm=1,
implying carry input is zero (previously, only vm=1 was permitted, implying carry input is used);
- vaaddu.vv, vaaddu.vx, vasubu.vv and vasubu.vx instructions added;
- vaadd.vv and vaadd.vx, instruction encodings changed;
- vaadd.vi instruction removed;
- all widening saturating scaled multiply-add instructions removed;
- vqmaccu.vv, vqmaccu.vx, vqmacc.vv, vqmacc.vx, vqmacc.vx, vqmaccsu.vx and vqmaccus.vx in-
structions added;
- CSR vlenb added (vector register length in bytes);
- load/store whole register instructions added;
- whole register move instructions added.
Version 0.8-draft-20191004
Stable 0.8 draft of October 4 2019, with these changes compared to version 0.8-draft-20190906:
- vwsmaccsu and vwsmaccus instruction encodings exchanged.
etc...
For full documentation, please clone the repo or browse the simulator doc:  https://github.com/riscv/riscv-ovpsim/blob/master/doc/OVP_Model_Specific_Information_riscv_RV64GCV.pdf

thanks for your interest

Simon Davidmann
Imperas Software

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