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
3.6.3.1. Instruction Cache Tag RAM
3.6.3.2. Instruction Cache Data RAM
3.6.3.3. ITCMs
3.6.3.4. Register File RAM Blocks
3.6.3.5. Data Cache Tag RAM
3.6.3.6. Data Cache Data RAM (Clean Line)
3.6.3.7. Data Cache Data RAM (Dirty Line)
3.6.3.8. Data Cache Victim Line Buffer RAM
3.6.3.9. DTCMs
3.6.3.10. MMU TLB RAM
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. Determining the Cause of Interrupt and Instruction-Related Exceptions
3.7.11. Handling Nested Exceptions
3.7.12. Handling Nonmaskable Interrupts
3.7.13. 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
5.4.5. Instruction Performance
The Nios II/e core dispatches a single instruction at a time, and the processor waits for an instruction to complete before fetching and dispatching the next instruction. Because each instruction completes before the next instruction is dispatched, branch prediction is not necessary. This greatly simplifies the consideration of processor stalls. Maximum performance is one instruction per six clock cycles. To achieve six cycles, the Avalon® -MM instruction master port must fetch an instruction in one clock cycle. A stall on the Avalon® -MM instruction master port directly extends the execution time of the instruction.
Instruction | Cycles |
---|---|
Normal ALU instructions (e.g., add, cmplt) | 6 |
All branch, jmp, jmpi, ret, call, callr | 6 |
trap, break, eret, bret,flushp, wrctl, rdctl,unimplemented | 6 |
All load word | 6 + Duration of Avalon® -MM read transfer |
All load halfword | 9 + Duration of Avalon® -MM read transfer |
All load byte | 10 + Duration of Avalon® -MM read transfer |
All store | 6 + Duration of Avalon® -MM write transfer |
All shift, all rotate | 7 to 38 |
All other instructions | 6 |
Combinatorial custom instructions | 6 |
Multicycle custom instructions | 6 |