3.4.2.1. The status Register
3.4.2.2. The estatus Register
3.4.2.3. The bstatus Register
3.4.2.4. The ienable Register
3.4.2.5. The ipending Register
3.4.2.6. The cpuid Register
3.4.2.7. The exception Register
3.4.2.8. The pteaddr Register
3.4.2.9. The tlbacc Register
3.4.2.10. The tlbmisc Register
3.4.2.11. The badaddr Register
3.4.2.12. The config Register
3.4.2.13. The mpubase Register
3.4.2.14. The mpuacc Register
3.7.1. Terminology
3.7.2. Exception Overview
3.7.3. Exception Latency
3.7.4. Reset Exceptions
3.7.5. Break Exceptions
3.7.6. Interrupt Exceptions
3.7.7. Instruction-Related Exceptions
3.7.8. Other Exceptions
3.7.9. Exception Processing Flow
3.7.10. Handling Nested Exceptions
3.7.11. Handling Nonmaskable Interrupts
3.7.12. Masking and Disabling Exceptions
3.7.7.1. Trap Instruction
3.7.7.2. Break Instruction
3.7.7.3. Unimplemented Instruction
3.7.7.4. Illegal Instruction
3.7.7.5. Supervisor-Only Instruction
3.7.7.6. Supervisor-Only Instruction Address
3.7.7.7. Supervisor-Only Data Address
3.7.7.8. Misaligned Data Address
3.7.7.9. Misaligned Destination Address
3.7.7.10. Division Error
3.7.7.11. Fast TLB Miss
3.7.7.12. Double TLB Miss
3.7.7.13. TLB Permission Violation
3.7.7.14. MPU Region Violation
3.9.1. Data Transfer Instructions
3.9.2. Arithmetic and Logical Instructions
3.9.3. Move Instructions
3.9.4. Comparison Instructions
3.9.5. Shift and Rotate Instructions
3.9.6. Program Control Instructions
3.9.7. Other Control Instructions
3.9.8. Custom Instructions
3.9.9. No-Operation Instruction
3.9.10. Potential Unimplemented Instructions
8.5.1. add
8.5.2. addi
8.5.3. and
8.5.4. andhi
8.5.5. andi
8.5.6. beq
8.5.7. bge
8.5.8. bgeu
8.5.9. bgt
8.5.10. bgtu
8.5.11. ble
8.5.12. bleu
8.5.13. blt
8.5.14. bltu
8.5.15. bne
8.5.16. br
8.5.17. break
8.5.18. bret
8.5.19. call
8.5.20. callr
8.5.21. cmpeq
8.5.22. cmpeqi
8.5.23. cmpge
8.5.24. cmpgei
8.5.25. cmpgeu
8.5.26. cmpgeui
8.5.27. cmpgt
8.5.28. cmpgti
8.5.29. cmpgtu
8.5.30. cmpgtui
8.5.31. cmple
8.5.32. cmplei
8.5.33. cmpleu
8.5.34. cmpleui
8.5.35. cmplt
8.5.36. cmplti
8.5.37. cmpltu
8.5.38. cmpltui
8.5.39. cmpne
8.5.40. cmpnei
8.5.41. custom
8.5.42. div
8.5.43. divu
8.5.44. eret
8.5.45. flushd
8.5.46. flushda
8.5.47. flushi
8.5.48. flushp
8.5.49. initd
8.5.50. initda
8.5.51. initi
8.5.52. jmp
8.5.53. jmpi
8.5.54. ldb / ldbio
8.5.55. ldbu / ldbuio
8.5.56. ldh / ldhio
8.5.57. ldhu / ldhuio
8.5.58. ldw / ldwio
8.5.59. mov
8.5.60. movhi
8.5.61. movi
8.5.62. movia
8.5.63. movui
8.5.64. mul
8.5.65. muli
8.5.66. mulxss
8.5.67. mulxsu
8.5.68. mulxuu
8.5.69. nextpc
8.5.70. nop
8.5.71. nor
8.5.72. or
8.5.73. orhi
8.5.74. ori
8.5.75. rdctl
8.5.76. rdprs
8.5.77. ret
8.5.78. rol
8.5.79. roli
8.5.80. ror
8.5.81. sll
8.5.82. slli
8.5.83. sra
8.5.84. srai
8.5.85. srl
8.5.86. srli
8.5.87. stb / stbio l
8.5.88. sth / sthio
8.5.89. stw / stwio
8.5.90. sub
8.5.91. subi
8.5.92. sync
8.5.93. trap
8.5.94. wrctl
8.5.95. wrprs
8.5.96. xor
8.5.97. xorhi
8.5.98. xori
4.1.2. Multiply and Divide Settings
The Nios II/s and Nios II/f cores offer hardware multiply and divide options. You can choose the best option to balance embedded multiplier usage, logic element (LE) usage, and performance.
The Hardware multiplication type parameter for each core provides the following list:
- DSP Block—Include DSP block multipliers in the arithmetic logic unit (ALU). This option is only selectable when targeting devices that have DSP block multipliers.
- Embedded Multipliers—Include embedded multipliers in the ALU. This option is only present when targeting FPGA devices that have embedded multipliers.
- Logic Elements—Include LE-based multipliers in the ALU. This option achieves high multiply performance without consuming embedded multiplier resources, but with reduced fMAX.
- None—This option conserves logic resources by eliminating multiply hardware. Multiply operations are implemented in software.
Note: Shift operations use the multiplier. So, Hardware multiplication type affects shift instruction speed.
Turning on Hardware divide includes LE-based divide hardware in the ALU. The Hardware divide option achieves much greater performance than software emulation of divide operations.
For information about the performance effects of the hardware multiply and divide options, refer to the Nios II Core Implementation Details chapter of the Nios II Processor Reference Handbook.
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