Instructions - 2022.2 English - UG1579

MicroBlaze Processor Embedded Design User Guide (UG1579)
Document ID
UG1579
Release Date
2022-11-02
Version
2022.2 English
  • Enable Barrel Shifter: Enables a hardware barrel shifter in MicroBlaze. This parameter enables the instructions bsrl, bsra, bsll, bsrli, bsrai, bslli, bsifi, and bsefi. With the 64-bit processor implementation the corresponding long instructions are also enabled. Enabling the barrel shifter can dramatically improve the performance of an application, but increases the size of the processor. The compiler uses the barrel shift instructions automatically if this parameter is enabled.
  • Enable Floating Point Unit: Enables a floating point unit (FPU) based on the IEEE-754 standard. Single-precision is available with the 32-bit processor implementation, and double-precision is added with the 64-bit implementation. Using the FPU significantly improves the floating point performance of the application and significantly increases the size of MicroBlaze.

    Setting this parameter to BASIC enables add, subtract, multiply, divide and compare instructions. Setting it to EXTENDED also enables convert and square-root instructions. The compiler automatically uses the FPU instructions corresponding to setting of this parameter.

  • Enable Integer Multiplier: Enables a hardware integer multiplier in MicroBlaze. This parameter enables the instructions mul and muli when set to MUL32.

    When set to MUL64, this enables the additional instructions: mulh, mulhu, and mulhsu for 64-bit multiplication. This parameter can be set to NONE to free up DSP48 primitives in the device for other uses. Setting this parameter to NONE has a minor effect on the area of the MicroBlaze processor. When this parameter is enabled, the compiler uses the mul instructions automatically.

  • Enable Integer Divider: Enables a hardware integer divider in MicroBlaze. This parameter enables the instructions, idiv and idivu. Enabling this parameter can improve the performance of an application that performs integer division, but increases the size of the processor. When this parameter is enabled, the compiler uses the idiv instructions automatically.
  • Enable Additional Machine Status Register Instructions: Enables additional machine status register (MSR) instructions for setting and clearing bits in the MSR. This parameter enables the instructions msrset and msrclr. Enabling this parameter improves the performance of changing bits in the MSR.
  • Enable Pattern Comparator: Enables pattern compare instructions pcmpbf, pcmpeq, and pcmpne.

    The pattern compare bytes find (pcmpbf) instructions return the position of the first byte that matches between two words and improves the performance of string and pattern matching operations. The Vitis™ libraries use the pcmpbf instructions automatically when this parameter is enabled.

    The pcmpeq and pcmpne instructions return 1 or 0 based on the equality of the two words. These instructions improve the performance of setting flags and the compiler uses them automatically. With the 64-bit processor implementation, the corresponding long instructions are also enabled.

    Selecting this option also enables count leading zeroes instruction, clz. The clz instruction can improve performance of priority decoding, and normalization.

  • Enable Reversed Load/Store and Swap Instructions: Enables reversed load/store and swap instructions lbur, lhur, lwr, sbr, shr, swr, swapb, and swaph. With the 64-bit processor implementation, the long reversed load/store instructions llr and slr are also enabled. The reversed load/store instructions read or write data with opposite endianness, and the swap instructions allow swapping bytes or half-words in registers. These instructions are mainly useful to improve performance when dealing with big-endian network access with a little-endian MicroBlaze.
  • Enable Additional Stream Instructions: Provides additional functionality when using AXI4-Stream links, including dynamic access instruction getd and putd that use registers to select the interface.

    The instructions are also extended with variants that provide:

    • Atomic get, getd, put, and putd instructions
    • Test-only get and getd instructions
    • get and getd instructions that generate a stream exception if the control bit is not set
    Important: The extended stream instructions must be enabled to use these additional instructions, and at least one stream link must be selected. The stream exception must be enabled to use instructions that generate stream exceptions.
  • Select Extended Addressing: Set the memory addressing capability. With the 32-bit processor implementation, this enables additional load/store instructions to be able to access a larger address space than 4GB (32-bit address). With the 64-bit processor implementation, the extended address is handled by normal load/store instructions. The data side LMB and AXI bus addresses are extended to the number of address bits corresponding to the selected memory size. The available choices are:
    • NONE (32-bit address, no additional instructions)
    • 64GB (36-bit address)
    • 1TB (40-bit address)
    • 16TB (44-bit address)
    • 256TB (48-bit address)
    • 16EB (64-bit address)
    • 4PB (52-bit address)

    For more information, including software usage and limitations, see the MicroBlaze Processor Reference Guide (UG984).