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# fox32 CPU
This document aims to describe the CPU in the the fox32 architecture.
Peripherals such as the disk controller are described in [io_bus.md](./io_bus.md).
## Endianness
All 16-bit or 32-bit values are stored in memory in little-endian order.
## Registers
The fox32 CPU has the following registers:
- **r0-r31**: 32-bit general-purpose registers
- **rsp**: current stack pointer
- **resp**: exception stack pointer
- **rfp**: frame pointer
- **rip**: instruction pointer
- condition flags, which are updated after some operations
- **zero flag**
- **carry flag**
- other flags
- enable use of exception stack pointer (**swap sp**)
- **interrupt flag**, to enable interrupt handling
- MMU state
- **MMU enabled** flag
- **page directory pointer**
## External buses
There are two kinds of external bus that the fox32 CPU can address:
- **Memory**: Data is read from and written to memory with the `mov` instruction,
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instructions are fetched from memory.
- **I/O bus**: Peripherals are connected to the I/O bus. Peripheral registers
can be read using the `in` instruction and written using the `out` instruction.
## Instruction encoding
All instructions start with a 16-bit control word, which is optionally followed
by a source operand, or by source and target operands, depending on the opcode.
| bits | name | description
|--------|--------|---------------------------------------------------
| 1:0 | source | source operand type
| 3:2 | target | target operand type
| 6:4 | cond | condition code
| 7 | --- | reserved, must be zero
| 13:8 | opcode | operation code/type, e.g. `mov` or `add`
| 15:14 | size | operation size, e.g. 32 bits
NOTE: Although in the instruction encoding the source operand comes first,
followed by the target operand, the order is reversed in the fox32 assembly
language. The following lines are equivalent:
```
cmp r1, r20
data.16 0x8700 data.8 20 data.8 1
```
### Operand types
| value | description | size of operand | what's actually stored?
|-------|-----------------------|------------------|--------------------------
| 0 | register | 8 bits | register number
| 1 | register pointer | 8 bits | register number
| 2 | immediate | operation size | value
| 3 | immediate pointer | 32 bits | pointer to memory location
### Register numbers
| value | register
|-------|---------------------------------------------------------------------
| 0-31 | r0-r31
| 32 | rsp
| 33 | resp
| 34 | rfp
### Condition codes
| value | name | description
|-------|-------------|-----------------------------------------------------
| 0 | always | execute unconditionally
| 1 | ifz | execute if zero flag is set
| 2 | ifnz | execute if zero flag is not set
| 3 | ifc/iflt | execute if carry flag is set
| 4 | ifnc/ifgteq | execute if carry flag is not set
| 5 | ifgt | execute if neither zero flag nor carry flag is set
| 6 | iflteq | execute if zero flag or carry flag is set
### Operation codes
| value | name | operands | op sizes| description
|-------|--------|----------|---------|-----------------------------------------------------
| 0x00 | NOP | none | 8/16/32 | no operation
| 0x01 | ADD | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | add
| 0x02 | MUL | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | multiply (unsigned)
| 0x03 | AND | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | bitwise AND
| 0x04 | SLA | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | shift left
| 0x05 | SRA | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | shift right arithmetic (with sign extension)
| 0x06 | BSE | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | bit set
| 0x07 | CMP | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | compare
| 0x08 | JMP | src | 32 | absolute jump
| 0x09 | RJMP | src | 32 | relative jump
| 0x0A | PUSH | src | 8/16/32 | push value to stack
| 0x0B | IN | src+tgt | 32 | get input from I/O bus
| 0x0C | ISE | none | 32 | set interrupt enable flag
| 0x0D | MSE | none | 32 | set MMU enable flag
| 0x10 | HALT | none | 8/16/32 | halt CPU
| 0x11 | INC | src | 8/16/32 | increment (add 1)
| 0x13 | OR | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | bitwise OR
| 0x14 | IMUL | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | multiply (signed)
| 0x15 | SRL | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | shift right logical (with zero extension)
| 0x16 | BCL | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | bit clear
| 0x17 | MOV | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | move value
| 0x18 | CALL | src | 32 | absolute call
| 0x19 | RCALL | src | 32 | relative call
| 0x1A | POP | src | 8/16/32 | pop value from stack
| 0x1B | OUT | src+tgt | 32 | output on I/O bus
| 0x1C | ICL | none | 32 | clear interrupt enable flag
| 0x1D | MCL | none | 32 | clear MMU enable flag
| 0x20 | BRK | none | 8/16/32 | debug breakpoint
| 0x21 | SUB | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | subtract
| 0x22 | DIV | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | divide (unsigned)
| 0x23 | XOR | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | bitwise XOR
| 0x24 | ROL | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | rotate left
| 0x25 | ROR | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | rotate right
| 0x26 | BTS | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | test if bit set
| 0x27 | MOVZ | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | move value and clear upper bits in target register
| 0x28 | LOOP | src | 32 | absolute loop
| 0x29 | RLOOP | src | 32 | relative loop
| 0x2A | RET | none | 32 | return from function
| 0x2C | INT | src | 32 | raise interrupt
| 0x2D | TLB | src | 32 | flush TLB and set page directory pointer
| 0x31 | DEC | src | 8/16/32 | decrement (subtract 1)
| 0x32 | REM | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | calculate remainder of division (unsigned)
| 0x33 | NOT | src | 8/16/32 | bitwise NOT
| 0x34 | IDIV | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | divide (signed)
| 0x35 | IREM | src+tgt | 8/16/32 | remainder (signed)
| 0x39 | RTA | src+tgt | 32 | calculate address relative to instruction pointer
| 0x3A | RETI | none | 32 | return from interrupt
| 0x3D | FLP | src | 32 | flush page from TLB
### Operation sizes
| value | description
|-------|--------------------------------------------------------------
| 0 | byte (8 bits)
| 1 | half (16 bits)
| 2 | word (32 bits)
| 3 | reserved
## Interrupts and Exceptions
Interrupts indicate asynchronous hardware events (such as VSYNC) or execution
of the `int` instruction, while exceptions indicate various synchronous errors.
There are 0x100 interrupt vectors and 5 exception vectors. Interrupt vectors
are at 0x000 to 0x3FC, and exception vectors at 0x400 to 0x410. These memory
locations simply store the address of the interrupt/exception handler,
or 0x0 when no handler has been installed.
(TODO: what should the hardware do when a handler is missing?)
| type | vector | description
|-----------|----------|-------------------------------------------
| interrupt | 0 - 0xF0 | free for software use
| interrupt | 0xFB | audio channel 3 refill
| interrupt | 0xFC | audio channel 2 refill
| interrupt | 0xFD | audio channel 1 refill
| interrupt | 0xFE | audio channel 0 refill
| interrupt | 0xFF | display VSYNC
| exception | 0x00 | divide by zero
| exception | 0x01 | invalid opcode
| exception | 0x02 | page fault during read
| exception | 0x03 | page fault during write
| exception | 0x04 | breakpoint
Upon interrupt/exception entry, the CPU performs the following operations:
- read handler address from vector
- if *swap sp* is enabled:
- switch to the exception stack pointer, and push the old stack pointer
- push current instruction pointer
- push flags (8 bits)
- push interrupt vector (0x00-0xff) or exception operand
- clear interrupt flag and *swap sp* flag
- jump to handler
Interrupt/exception handlers are exited through the `reti` instruction, which
performs the following operations:
- pop and restore flags
- pop instruction pointer
- if *swap sp* flag is set, pop stack pointer
The flags are stored in the following format:
| bit | description
|--------|-----------------------------------------------
| 0 | zero flag
| 1 | carry flag
| 2 | interrupt flag
| 3 | *swap sp* flag
## MMU
If the MMU is enabled, two-level page tables are used to translate virtual
addresses to physical addresses.
The address of the page directory can be set using the `tlb` instruction.
| virtual address bits | purpose
|-----------------------|--------------------------------------------------
| 11:0 | lowest 12 bits of physical address
| 21:12 | page table index
| 31:22 | page directory index
Page directories and page tables are arrays of 1024 elements of the following format:
| bits | bit mask ts | purpose
|-------|---------------|--------------------------------------------------
| 31:12 | 0xfffff000 | address of page table or page
| 1 | 0x00000002 | page is writable
| 0 | 0x00000001 | page table or page is present
A page table walk is performed as follows:
- read page directory entry at page directory index in page directory
- abort if page table is not present
- read page table entry at page table index in page table
- abort of page is not present
- use physical page address and writability information from page table entry