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17; *** Scatter-Loading Description File ***
18; *************************************************************
Kshitij Sisodia7e56d8f2022-04-11 10:34:29 +010019; Please see docs/sections/appendix.md for memory mapping
20; information.
Isabella Gottardi118f73e2021-09-16 17:54:35 +010021;
Kshitij Sisodia661959c2021-11-24 10:39:52 +000022; Note: Ethos-U NPU can access BRAM, internal SRAM and the DDR
Kshitij Sisodia7e56d8f2022-04-11 10:34:29 +010023; sections => activation buffers and the model should
24; only be placed in those regions.
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +000025;
26;---------------------------------------------------------
27; First load region (ITCM)
28;---------------------------------------------------------
29LOAD_REGION_0 0x00000000 0x00080000
30{
31 ;-----------------------------------------------------
32 ; First part of code mem - 512kiB
33 ;-----------------------------------------------------
34 itcm.bin 0x00000000 0x00080000
35 {
36 *.o (RESET, +First)
37 * (InRoot$$Sections)
38
39 ; Essentially only RO-CODE, RO-DATA is in a
40 ; different region.
41 .ANY (+RO)
42 }
43
44 ;-----------------------------------------------------
Kshitij Sisodia7e56d8f2022-04-11 10:34:29 +010045 ; 384kiB of 512kiB DTCM is used for any other RW or ZI
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +000046 ; data. Note: this region is internal to the Cortex-M
Kshitij Sisodiaf9c19ea2021-05-07 16:08:14 +010047 ; CPU.
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +000048 ;-----------------------------------------------------
Kshitij Sisodia7e56d8f2022-04-11 10:34:29 +010049 dtcm.bin 0x20000000 0x00060000
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +000050 {
Kshitij Sisodiaf9c19ea2021-05-07 16:08:14 +010051 ; Any R/W and/or zero initialised data
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +000052 .ANY(+RW +ZI)
53 }
54
55 ;-----------------------------------------------------
Kshitij Sisodia7e56d8f2022-04-11 10:34:29 +010056 ; 32 kiB of stack space within the DTCM region. See
Kshitij Sisodiaf9c19ea2021-05-07 16:08:14 +010057 ; `dtcm.bin` for the first section. Note: by virtue of
58 ; being part of DTCM, this region is only accessible
Kshitij Sisodia7e56d8f2022-04-11 10:34:29 +010059 ; from Cortex-M55. We use the last DTCM bank
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +000060 ;-----------------------------------------------------
Kshitij Sisodia7e56d8f2022-04-11 10:34:29 +010061 ARM_LIB_STACK 0x20060000 EMPTY ALIGN 8 0x00008000
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +000062 {}
63
64 ;-----------------------------------------------------
Kshitij Sisodia7e56d8f2022-04-11 10:34:29 +010065 ; FPGA internal SRAM of 2MiB - reserved for activation
66 ; buffers.
Kshitij Sisodiaf9c19ea2021-05-07 16:08:14 +010067 ; This region should have 3 cycle read latency from
Isabella Gottardif5907732021-08-06 15:39:41 +010068 ; both Cortex-M55 and Ethos-U NPU
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +000069 ;-----------------------------------------------------
Kshitij Sisodia661959c2021-11-24 10:39:52 +000070 isram.bin 0x31000000 UNINIT ALIGN 16 0x00200000
Kshitij Sisodiaf9c19ea2021-05-07 16:08:14 +010071 {
Isabella Gottardi118f73e2021-09-16 17:54:35 +010072 ; Cache area (if used)
73 *.o (.bss.NoInit.ethos_u_cache)
74
Kshitij Sisodia661959c2021-11-24 10:39:52 +000075 ; activation buffers a.k.a tensor arena when
76 ; memory mode sram only or shared sram
Isabella Gottardi118f73e2021-09-16 17:54:35 +010077 *.o (.bss.NoInit.activation_buf_sram)
Kshitij Sisodiaf9c19ea2021-05-07 16:08:14 +010078 }
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +000079}
80
81;---------------------------------------------------------
82; Second load region (DDR)
83;---------------------------------------------------------
84LOAD_REGION_1 0x70000000 0x02000000
85{
86 ;-----------------------------------------------------
Kshitij Sisodiaf9c19ea2021-05-07 16:08:14 +010087 ; 32 MiB of DDR space for neural network model,
88 ; input vectors and labels. If the activation buffer
89 ; size required by the network is bigger than the
90 ; SRAM size available, it is accommodated here.
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +000091 ;-----------------------------------------------------
Kshitij Sisodiaf9c19ea2021-05-07 16:08:14 +010092 ddr.bin 0x70000000 ALIGN 16 0x02000000
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +000093 {
94 ; nn model's baked in input matrices
95 *.o (ifm)
96
Isabella Gottardi118f73e2021-09-16 17:54:35 +010097 ; nn model's default space
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +000098 *.o (nn_model)
99
Kshitij Sisodiaf9c19ea2021-05-07 16:08:14 +0100100 ; labels
101 *.o (labels)
102
Isabella Gottardi118f73e2021-09-16 17:54:35 +0100103 ; activation buffers a.k.a tensor arena when memory mode dedicated sram
104 *.o (activation_buf_dram)
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +0000105 }
106
107 ;-----------------------------------------------------
Kshitij Sisodiaf9c19ea2021-05-07 16:08:14 +0100108 ; First 256kiB of BRAM (FPGA SRAM) used for RO data.
Kshitij Sisodia661959c2021-11-24 10:39:52 +0000109 ; Note: Total BRAM size available is 1MiB.
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +0000110 ;-----------------------------------------------------
Kshitij Sisodiaf9c19ea2021-05-07 16:08:14 +0100111 bram.bin 0x11000000 ALIGN 8 0x00040000
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +0000112 {
113 ; RO data (incl. unwinding tables for debugging)
114 .ANY (+RO-DATA)
115 }
Kshitij Sisodiaf9c19ea2021-05-07 16:08:14 +0100116
117 ;-----------------------------------------------------
Kshitij Sisodia661959c2021-11-24 10:39:52 +0000118 ; 768 KiB of remaining part of the 1MiB BRAM used as
119 ; heap space.
Kshitij Sisodiaf9c19ea2021-05-07 16:08:14 +0100120 ;-----------------------------------------------------
Kshitij Sisodia661959c2021-11-24 10:39:52 +0000121 ARM_LIB_HEAP 0x11040000 EMPTY ALIGN 8 0x000C0000
Kshitij Sisodiaf9c19ea2021-05-07 16:08:14 +0100122 {}
alexander3c798932021-03-26 21:42:19 +0000123}