Culsans: An Efficient Snoop-based Coherency Unit for the CVA6 Open Source RISC-V application processor

Riccardo Tedeschi; Luca Valente; Gianmarco Ottavi; Enrico Zelioli; Nils Wistoff; Massimiliano Giacometti; Abdul Basit Sajjad; Luca Benini; Davide Rossi

arXiv · 2407.19895

Culsans: An Efficient Snoop-based Coherency Unit for the CVA6 Open Source RISC-V application processor

Riccardo Tedeschi·Luca Valente·Gianmarco Ottavi·Enrico Zelioli·Nils Wistoff·Massimiliano Giacometti·Abdul Basit Sajjad·Luca Benini·Davide Rossi

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Abstract

Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) based on cache coherency is crucial for high-end embedded systems like automotive applications. RISC-V is gaining traction, and open-source hardware (OSH) platforms offer solutions to issues such as IP costs and vendor dependency. Existing multi-core cache-coherent RISC-V platforms are complex and not efficient for small embedded core clusters. We propose an open-source SystemVerilog implementation of a lightweight snoop-based cache-coherent cluster of Linux-capable CVA6 cores. Our design uses the MOESI protocol via the Arm's AMBA ACE protocol. Evaluated with Splash-3 benchmarks, our solution shows up to 32.87% faster performance in a dual-core setup and an average improvement of 15.8% over OpenPiton. Synthesized using GF 22nm FDSOI technology, the Cache Coherency Unit occupies only 1.6% of the system area.

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Riccardo Tedeschi, Luca Valente, Gianmarco Ottavi, Enrico Zelioli, Nils Wistoff, Massimiliano Giacometti, Abdul Basit Sajjad, Luca Benini, Davide Rossi. 2024-08-12. Culsans: An Efficient Snoop-based Coherency Unit for the CVA6 Open Source RISC-V application processor. https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.19895

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