[J-core] Fwd: ISA manual for SH-2

[Francisco Javier Bizcocho Antúnez]

I will definitely try to exchange them at some point in the future.
Programming under the original SH2 with such debugging constraints must
have been quite painful.

Also I'm quite suprised that GCC was not using those FPU instructions. I
normally use them under ASM, they are quite useful.


On 26 May 2017 at 12:50, BGB <cr88192 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/26/2017 4:01 AM, D. Jeff Dionne wrote:
>
> On May 26, 2017, at 16:31, Francisco Javier Bizcocho Antúnez <
> volkovdablo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
> BGB could you describe a bit more which instructions from SH4 FPU were not
> used by C compiler?.
>
>
> I'm not sure what BGB's compiler does with the FPU, but basically either
> GCC or libgcc.a / libm.a likely needs to have the option to use basically
> all of the SH3 and later FPU instructions in order to achieve the best
> possible floating point performance.   SH4 also has some vector
> instructions, which are useful for things like signal processing, which
> likely are not easy for a new compiler to use..
>
>
> my comment was actually based on observations from GCC, not on my compiler
> (though, I can't say whether this also holds for math code in the C
> libraries).
>
> as for which instructions I had seen going unused:
> * FIPR, or basically the dot-product of two vectors.
> * FTRV, which does a partial matrix multiply.
> * FLDI0, FLDI1: which load float constants of 0.0 and 1.0
> ** I don't actually know why GCC doesn't use them (it seems to always load
> them from memory).
> ** my compiler may use them.
> * FMAC: basically does a multiply-accumulate with floats.
> ** FRn=FRn+FR0*FRm
> * FSCHG: inverts FPSCR.SZ
> ** GCC seems to pretty much never set SZ in my tests
> *** though these tests were limited to SH4 in little-endian mode.
>
> similarly, the XF and XD registers were not used by GCC in my tests (only
> FRn and DRn).
>
> the FIPR, FTRV, and XF/XD registers were dropped from SH2A.
> * the use of these registers also seems to be undefined in the C ABI.
>
>
> in my FPU+SIMD extensions for my BJX1 extensions:
> * XF/XD registers have been partially redubbed as FR16..FR31 and
> odd-numbered DRn registers.
> * I made them freely usable by normal arithmetic instructions
> ** (though directly using FR16-FR31 requires use of 32-bit I-forms).
> * they are also used in composing vectors.
>
>
> Also I have another question related with the J2 cores. Do you guys think
> is possible to exchange the SH2 cores present in the Sega Saturn for to
> FPGAs with J2 cores on them?.
>
>
> Yes.
>
>
> so they are pin-compatible? interesting.
>
> This is due of the lack of JTAG capabilities of the original SH2 cores, I
> want to test if I could use this configuration to develop some software
> that could run later on retail Sega Saturn machines.
>
>
> exchange in circuit is a bit hard, you likely want to emulate large parts
> (basically building a functional equivalent) in FPGA.   There was great
> interest in doing this by some of the original engineers here in Japan, but
> the project never seems to have gotten off the ground (building products
> for customers with J2 has been a priority).
>
>
> makes sense.
>
>
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