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Picoblaze Interrupt Interface & Assembly Code Development: Ece 448 - Fpga and Asic Design With VHDL

The document discusses the PicoBlaze interrupt interface and assembly code development, including PicoBlaze program flow control and interrupt instructions, developing assembly code using directives and an assembler, and an example of an unsigned multiplication subroutine implemented in PicoBlaze assembly language using a shift-and-add algorithm.

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Picoblaze Interrupt Interface & Assembly Code Development: Ece 448 - Fpga and Asic Design With VHDL

The document discusses the PicoBlaze interrupt interface and assembly code development, including PicoBlaze program flow control and interrupt instructions, developing assembly code using directives and an assembler, and an example of an unsigned multiplication subroutine implemented in PicoBlaze assembly language using a shift-and-add algorithm.

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Lecture 19

PicoBlaze Interrupt Interface


&
Assembly Code Development

ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL


Required reading

• P. Chu, FPGA Prototyping by VHDL Examples


Chapter 17, PicoBlaze Interrupt Interface
Chapter 15, Assembly Code Development

ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL 2


Program Flow Control Instructions (1)

JUMP AAA
PC <= AAA
JUMP C, AAA
if C=1 then PC <= AAA else PC <= PC + 1
JUMP NC, AAA
if C=0 then PC <= AAA else PC <= PC + 1
JUMP Z, AAA
if Z=1 then PC <= AAA else PC <= PC + 1
JUMP NC, AAA
if Z=0 then PC <= AAA else PC <= PC + 1
Program Flow Control Instructions (2)

CALL AAA
TOS <= TOS+1; STACK[TOS] <= PC; PC <= AAA

CALL C | Z , AAA
if C | Z =1 then
TOS <= TOS+1; STACK[TOS] <= PC; PC <= AAA
else
PC <= PC + 1

CALL NC | NZ , AAA
if C | Z =0 then
TOS <= TOS+1; STACK[TOS] <= PC; PC <= AAA
else
PC <= PC + 1
Program Flow Control Instructions (3)

RETURN (RET)
PC <= STACK[TOS] + 1; TOS <= TOS - 1

RETURN C | Z (RET C | Z )
if C | Z =1 then
PC <= STACK[TOS] + 1; TOS <= TOS - 1
else
PC <= PC + 1

RETURN NC | NZ (RET NC | NZ )
if C | Z =0 then
PC <= STACK[TOS] + 1; TOS <= TOS - 1
else
PC <= PC + 1
Interrupt Related Instructions
RETURNI ENABLE (RETI ENABLE)
PC <= STACK[TOS] ; TOS <= TOS – 1;
I <= 1; C<= PRESERVED C; Z<= PRESERVED Z

RETURNI DISABLE (RETI DISABLE)


PC <= STACK[TOS] ; TOS <= TOS – 1;
I <= 0; C<= PRESERVED C; Z<= PRESERVED Z

ENABLE INTERRUPT (EINT)


I <=1;

DISABLE INTERRUPT (DINT)


I <=0;
Interrupt
Flow

ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL 7


Timing Diagram of an Interrupt Event

ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL 8


ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL 9
Interrupt Interface with a Single Event

ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL 10


Interrupt Interface with Two Requests

ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL 11


Interrupt Interface with a Timer

ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL 12


Interrupt Interface with a Timer

ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL 13


PicoBlaze Development Environments

ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL 14


KCPSM3 Assembler Files

ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL 15


Directives of Assembly Language

ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL 16


Differences between Mnemonics of Instructions

ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL 17


Differences between Mnemonics of Instructions

ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL 18


Differences between Programs

ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL 19


Example of
a function in the PicoBlaze
assembly language

ECE 448 – FPGA and ASIC Design with VHDL


Unsigned Multiplication – Basic Equations
k-1
p=ax x =  x i  2i
i=0

k-1
p = a  x =  a  x i  2i =
i=0

= x0a20 + x1a21 + x2a22 + … + xk-1a2k-1


Iterative Algorithm for Unsigned Multiplication
Shift/Add Algorithm

p = a  x = x0a20 + x1a21 + x2a22 + … + xk-1a2k-1 =

= (...((0 + x0a2k)/2 + x1a2k)/2 + ... + xk-1a2k)/2 =

k times
p(0) = 0
p(j+1) = (p(j) + xj a 2k) / 2 j=0..k-1

p = p(k)
Unsigned Multiplication Computations
8 bits 8 bits

pH pL p p(j)
+ xj a + xj a 28

pH pL
2 p(j+1)
>> 1
0 pH pL p(j+1)

pH = s5 pL = s6
PicoBlaze Registers
a = s3
x = s4
Unsigned Multiplication Subroutine (1)

;=========================================================
; routine: mult_soft
; function: 8-bit unsigned multiplier using
; shift-and-add algorithm
; input register:
; s3: multiplicand
; s4: multiplier
; output register:
; s5: upper byte of product
; s6: lower byte of product
; temp register: i
;=========================================================
Unsigned Multiplication Subroutine (2)
mult_soft:
load s5, 00 ;clear s5
load i, 08 ;initialize loop index
mult_loop:
sr0 s4 ;shift lsb to carry
jump nc, shift_prod ;lsb is 0
add s5, s3 ;lsb is 1
shift_prod:
sra s5 ;shift upper byte right,
;carry to MSB, LSB to carry
sra s6 ;shift lower byte right,
;lsb of s5 to MSB of s6
sub i, 01 ;dec loop index
jump nz, mult_loop ;repeat until i=0
return

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