; SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright 2021, 2023 Arm Limited and/or its affiliates ; SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 ; ; Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); ; you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. ; You may obtain a copy of the License at ; ; http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 ; ; Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software ; distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, ; WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. ; See the License for the specific language governing permissions and ; limitations under the License. ; ************************************************************* ; *** Scatter-Loading Description File *** ; ************************************************************* ; Please see docs/sections/appendix.md for memory mapping ; information. ; ; Note: Ethos-U NPU can access BRAM, internal SRAM and the DDR ; sections => activation buffers and the model should ; only be placed in those regions. ; ;--------------------------------------------------------- ; First load region (SRAM/BRAM) 2MiB region ;--------------------------------------------------------- LOAD_REGION_0 0x11000000 0x00200000 { ;----------------------------------------------------- ; First 640K of SRAM/BRAM. Our vector table also ; resides here as the default INITSVTOR is 0x11000000. ; We currently do not use the ITCM for any code, but ; could potentially put some critical code in there ; if we need to. ;----------------------------------------------------- bram.bin 0x11000000 0x000A0000 { *.o (RESET, +First) * (InRoot$$Sections) ; Essentially only RO (code + data) .ANY (+RO) } ;----------------------------------------------------- ; Next 384K of SRAM/BRAM region for RO, RW and ZI ; data, 8 byte aligned. ;----------------------------------------------------- data.bin 0x110A0000 ALIGN 8 0x00060000 { ; Any RO-DATA .ANY (+RO-DATA) ; Any R/W and/or zero initialised data .ANY(+RW +ZI) } ;----------------------------------------------------- ; 768 KiB of remaining part of the 1MiB BRAM used as ; heap space. ;----------------------------------------------------- ARM_LIB_HEAP 0x11100000 EMPTY ALIGN 8 0x000C0000 {} ;----------------------------------------------------- ; 32 kiB of stack space occupying the DTCM region. ;----------------------------------------------------- ARM_LIB_STACK 0x30000000 EMPTY ALIGN 8 0x00008000 {} ;----------------------------------------------------- ; FPGA internal SRAM of 2MiB - reserved for activation ; buffers. The total memory is 4 MiB (we are choosing ; to not use the other bank). This region should have ; 3 cycle read latency from both CPU and Ethos-U NPU. ;----------------------------------------------------- isram.bin 0x31000000 UNINIT ALIGN 16 0x00200000 { ; Cache area (if used) *.o (.bss.NoInit.ethos_u_cache) ; activation buffers a.k.a tensor arena when ; memory mode sram only or shared sram *.o (.bss.NoInit.activation_buf_sram) } } ;--------------------------------------------------------- ; Second load region (DDR) ;--------------------------------------------------------- LOAD_REGION_1 0x70000000 0x02000000 { ;----------------------------------------------------- ; 32 MiB of DDR space for neural network model, ; input vectors and labels. If the activation buffer ; size required by the network is bigger than the ; SRAM size available, it is accommodated here. ;----------------------------------------------------- ddr.bin 0x70000000 ALIGN 16 0x02000000 { ; nn model's baked in input matrices *.o (ifm) ; nn model's default space *.o (nn_model) ; labels *.o (labels) ; activation buffers a.k.a tensor arena when memory mode dedicated sram *.o (activation_buf_dram) } ;----------------------------------------------------- ; The following regions are for use by the FVP to ; allow loading or dumping of dynamic data into or ; from the memory. These regions are mentioned in ; the CMake subsystem profile. Do not change the ; addresses and sizes below in isolation. ;----------------------------------------------------- ; 32 MiB of model space for run-time load of model ;----------------------------------------------------- runtime_model 0x90000000 EMPTY ALIGN 16 0x02000000 {} ;----------------------------------------------------- ; 16 MiB of IFM space for run-time loading (FVP only) ;----------------------------------------------------- runtime_ifm 0x92000000 EMPTY ALIGN 16 0x01000000 {} ;----------------------------------------------------- ; 16 MiB of OFM space for run-time loading (FVP only) ;----------------------------------------------------- runtime_ofm 0x93000000 EMPTY ALIGN 16 0x01000000 {} }