; SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright 2021 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 (ITCM) ;--------------------------------------------------------- LOAD_REGION_0 0x00000000 0x00080000 { ;----------------------------------------------------- ; First part of code mem - 512kiB ;----------------------------------------------------- itcm.bin 0x00000000 0x00080000 { *.o (RESET, +First) * (InRoot$$Sections) ; Essentially only RO-CODE, RO-DATA is in a ; different region. .ANY (+RO) } ;----------------------------------------------------- ; 384kiB of 512kiB DTCM is used for any other RW or ZI ; data. Note: this region is internal to the Cortex-M ; CPU. ;----------------------------------------------------- dtcm.bin 0x20000000 0x00060000 { ; Any R/W and/or zero initialised data .ANY(+RW +ZI) } ;----------------------------------------------------- ; 32 kiB of stack space within the DTCM region. See ; `dtcm.bin` for the first section. Note: by virtue of ; being part of DTCM, this region is only accessible ; from Cortex-M55. We use the last DTCM bank ;----------------------------------------------------- ARM_LIB_STACK 0x20060000 EMPTY ALIGN 8 0x00008000 {} ;----------------------------------------------------- ; FPGA internal SRAM of 2MiB - reserved for activation ; buffers. ; This region should have 3 cycle read latency from ; both Cortex-M55 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) } ;----------------------------------------------------- ; First 256kiB of BRAM (FPGA SRAM) used for RO data. ; Note: Total BRAM size available is 1MiB. ;----------------------------------------------------- bram.bin 0x11000000 ALIGN 8 0x00040000 { ; RO data (incl. unwinding tables for debugging) .ANY (+RO-DATA) } ;----------------------------------------------------- ; 768 KiB of remaining part of the 1MiB BRAM used as ; heap space. ;----------------------------------------------------- ARM_LIB_HEAP 0x11040000 EMPTY ALIGN 8 0x000C0000 {} }