axidmacheck VS verilog-axi

If you are looking for an AXI4 cache implementation, the ZipCPU currently supports two (I+D) that you might be able to gain some insights from. There's the AXI instruction cache implementation, and an AXI4 data cache implementation. They are both one way caches. Both were featured in an article on performance measurement last year. The data cache implementation doesn't support exclusive access yet--that's still on my to-do list. You can find these caches demonstrated in my AXI DMA check repo, if you'd like to try them out.

My current test case involves a ZipCPU and memory running Dhrystone. All but the Dhrystone software (that also drives the performance monitor and reads back and interprets the results) are posted on line, in case you want to see how I hooked it up.

You can also use an AXI lite crossbar like this one: https://github.com/alexforencich/verilog-axi/blob/master/rtl/axil_crossbar.v

does anybody knows some sort of AXI4 Crossbar or maybe even an Interconnect with good performance in terms of latency? If I have something like the following scenario, the idea is that M1 txns must have very low access latency in the sense of making the CPU capable of processing at least one instruction per cc. For M2 it's fine to take more time, but what I'm observing is that with this solution for instance, I cannot achieve constant fetching from the CPU, there's always a 1 cc delay between req/resp what hits bad my IPC. Also, S1 cannot be tightly coupled to the CPU because sometimes M2 might require to also fetch from IRAM/ROM. Is it better to switch to another protocol to achieve such good performance latency? if so, what open source available solution can have interesting perf. num, wishbone / AHB?

You can also look at some of my code, which is all MIT licensed: https://github.com/alexforencich/verilog-axi

AXI DMA, or the datamover core that the AXI DMA core uses internally, depending on your use case. I also have an open source AXI DMA module that's comparable to the Xilinx datamover core here: https://github.com/alexforencich/verilog-axi/blob/master/rtl/axi_dma.v

Xilinx soft IPs: I use the Xilinx IPs: AXI DMA, AXI-Stream Datawidth converter, AXI-Stream Clock converter...etc, for which I'm able to find open source RTL designs here, here and here.

I'm thinking of synthesizing it with ASIC tools such as Synopsys DesignCompiler to check the area & timing. I found some open source projects with Verilog IPs for AXI (zipcpu, alexforencich) and AXIS (alexforencich) modules, and I think I can replace the Xilinx IPs with them. After publishing my paper, I'm planning to release my code as open-source as well.

Thanks for the reply! I ran a particular testbench from your repository but when I placed print statements(print(tb.dut.S_DATA_WIDTH.value) in each test (run_test_write,run_test_read) , I found that it prints out the default parameter value (32) every time.

Here's one of my cocotb testbenches for reference: https://github.com/alexforencich/verilog-axi/blob/master/tb/axi_adapter/test_axi_adapter.py .