Information for BareMetalMips32Dual

This page provides detailed information about the mips.ovpworld.org BareMetalMips32Dual Virtual Platform / Virtual Prototype.

Description
Bare Metal Platform for a MIPS32 Processor (default 4Km). The bare metal platform instantiates two MIPS32 processor instances. The processor operates using big endian data ordering. It creates contiguous memory from 0x00000000 to 0xFFFFFFFF. The platform can be passed any application compiled to a MIPS elf format. The same application executes on each processor. There is no sharing of data. It may also be passed a new variant to be used (default 4Km) ./platform.OS.exe --program application.CROSS.elf [--variant ]

Licensing
Open Source Apache 2.0

Limitations
BareMetal platform for execution of MIPS MIPS32 binary files compiled with CodeSourcery CrossCompiler toolchain.

Location
The BareMetalMips32Dual virtual platform is located in an Imperas/OVP installation at the VLNV: mips.ovpworld.org / platform / BareMetalMips32Dual / 1.0.

Platform Summary

Table 1: Components in platform

Platform Simulation Attributes

Table 2: Platform Simulation Attributes

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Command Line Control of the Platform

Built-in Arguments

Table 3: Platform Built-in Arguments

When running a platform in a Windows or Linux shell several command arguments can be specified. Typically there is a '-help' command which lists the commands available in the platforms.
For example: myplatform.exe -help

Some command line arguments require a value to be provided.
For example: myplatform.exe -program myimagefile.elf

Platform Specific Command Line Arguments
No platform specific command line arguments have been specified.

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Processor [mips.ovpworld.org/processor/mips32_r1r5/1.0] instance: cpu0

Processor model type: 'mips32_r1r5' variant '4Km' definition
Imperas OVP processor models support multiple variants and details of the variants implemented in this model can be found in:
- the Imperas installation located at ImperasLib/source/mips.ovpworld.org/processor/mips32_r1r5/1.0/doc
- the OVP website: OVP_Model_Specific_Information_mips32_r1r5_4Km.pdf

Description
MIPS32 Configurable Processor Model

Licensing
Usage of binary model under license governing simulator usage. Source of model available under Imperas Software License Agreement.

Limitations
If this model is not part of your installation, then it is available for download from www.OVPworld.org/MIPSuser.

Verification
Models have been validated correct as part of the MIPS Verified program and run through the MIPS AVP test programs

Features
only MIPS32 Instruction set implemented
MMU Type: Fixed Mapping
L1 I and D cache model in either full or tag-only mode implemented (disabled by default)

Instance Parameters
Several parameters can be specified when a processor is instanced in a platform. For this processor instance 'cpu0' it has been instanced with the following parameters:

Table 4: Processor Instance 'cpu0' Parameters (Configurations)

Table 5: Processor Instance 'cpu0' Parameters (Attributes)

Memory Map for processor 'cpu0' bus: 'bus0'
Processor instance 'cpu0' is connected to bus 'bus0' using master port 'INSTRUCTION'.

Processor instance 'cpu0' is connected to bus 'bus0' using master port 'DATA'.

Table 6: Memory Map ( 'cpu0' / 'bus0' [width: 32] )

Net Connections to processor: 'cpu0'
There are no nets connected to this processor.

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Processor [mips.ovpworld.org/processor/mips32_r1r5/1.0] instance: cpu1

Processor model type: 'mips32_r1r5' variant '4Km' definition
Imperas OVP processor models support multiple variants and details of the variants implemented in this model can be found in:
- the Imperas installation located at ImperasLib/source/mips.ovpworld.org/processor/mips32_r1r5/1.0/doc
- the OVP website: OVP_Model_Specific_Information_mips32_r1r5_4Km.pdf

Description
MIPS32 Configurable Processor Model

Licensing
Usage of binary model under license governing simulator usage. Source of model available under Imperas Software License Agreement.

Limitations
If this model is not part of your installation, then it is available for download from www.OVPworld.org/MIPSuser.

Verification
Models have been validated correct as part of the MIPS Verified program and run through the MIPS AVP test programs

Features
only MIPS32 Instruction set implemented
MMU Type: Fixed Mapping
L1 I and D cache model in either full or tag-only mode implemented (disabled by default)

Instance Parameters
Several parameters can be specified when a processor is instanced in a platform. For this processor instance 'cpu1' it has been instanced with the following parameters:

Table 7: Processor Instance 'cpu1' Parameters (Configurations)

Table 8: Processor Instance 'cpu1' Parameters (Attributes)

Memory Map for processor 'cpu1' bus: 'bus1'
Processor instance 'cpu1' is connected to bus 'bus1' using master port 'INSTRUCTION'.

Processor instance 'cpu1' is connected to bus 'bus1' using master port 'DATA'.

Table 9: Memory Map ( 'cpu1' / 'bus1' [width: 32] )

Net Connections to processor: 'cpu1'
There are no nets connected to this processor.

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Other Sites/Pages with similar information

Information on the BareMetalMips32Dual Virtual Platform can also be found on other web sites :
www.ovpworld.org has the library pages http://www.ovpworld.org/library/wikka.php?wakka=CategoryPlatform
www.imperas.com has more information on the model library

A couple of documents (from other related sites that might be of interest)
http://www.ovpworld.org: VMI Run Time (VMI RT) API Reference Guide
http://www.ovpworld.org: Using OVP Fast Processor Models with OVPsim and other simulators

Two Videos on these models (from other sites)
http://www.ovpworld.org: PowerPC Bare Metal Video Presentation
http://www.ovpworld.org: Altera Nios II Bare Metal & Cyclone III Linux Booting Demo Video

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