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Mars I µarch | |
General Info | |
Arch Type | CPU |
Designer | Phytium |
Manufacturer | TSMC |
Introduction | 2017 |
Process | 28 nm |
Core Configs | 64 |
Pipeline | |
Type | Superscalar, Pipelined |
OoOE | Yes |
Speculative | Yes |
Reg Renaming | Yes |
Instructions | |
ISA | ARMv8 |
Succession | |
Mars I is the first many-core ARM SoC microarchitecture designed by Phytium Technology for the Chinese server market.
Contents
Process technology[edit]
Mars I is designed for TSMC's 28 nm process.
Architecture[edit]
- 64 ARM cores
- 28 nm process
- 2 GHz
- FTC-661/0 Xiaomi core
- System memory
- DDR3
- 1600 MT/s
This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
Block diagram[edit]
Entire SoC[edit]
Panel[edit]
Core[edit]
- Main article: Xiaomi Core
See Xiaomi Core.
SoC[edit]
Panel Architecture[edit]
Phytium organizes their processors using a grid-layout they call Panels they call Panel-based data affinity architecture. Each panel consists of 8 independent ARMv8-compatible cores. Phytium "Mars" processor consists of 8 such panels for a total of 64 cores. Panels are interconnected with a 2-dimensional mesh network-on-a-chip level 2 cache with 4 MiB per panel for a total of 32 MiB.
In addition to the main die, Mars uses an additional Cache & Memory chips (CMC) auxiliary chips. "Mars" uses 8 such chips connected to the main die providing 16 MiB of level 3 cache for a total of 128 MiB as well as 8 dual-channel DDR3-1600 memory controllers for a total maximum bandwidth of 204 GiB/s. Mars also provides two 16-lane PCIe 3.0 interfaces. The chips incorporates ECC and parity protection on all caches, tags, and TLBs.
Panel[edit]
Each Panel consists of 8 cores - each ARMv8-compatible, supporting AArch32 and AArch64 modes, Exception Levels EL0-EL3, as well as ASIMD-128 operations. Each core has its own inclusive L1 cache and a shared L2 cache (4 MiB per panel). Each panel contains two Directory Control Units (DCU) which are in charge of maintaining directory-based cache coherency and one routing cell for managing the inter-panel communication.
On TSMC's 28 nm process, a panel is 6,000 µm x 10,600 µm (63.6 mm²).
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Cache & Memory Chip (CMC)[edit]
The solve the complexity involved in having more than eight memory controllers on a chip, Xiaomi uses a coupled auxiliary Cache & Memory Chip (CMC) to scale the bandwidth with computing power. In the case of Phytium "Mars" chip which contains 64 cores on 8 panels, eight CMC chips are used which provides 16 DDR3 controllers (8x2) along with 16 MiB of data L3 cache and 2 MiB of data ECC. Phytium proprietary interface is used between the processor and the CMC chip.
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- Panel & NoC operates @ 2 GHz
- CMC operates @ 1.5 GHz
Interconnects & Hawk[edit]
Hawk is Pythium cache coherence protocol which implements a distributed directory-based global cache coherency across all the panels. Hawk is a MOESI-like package-based protocol. The network has a node on each panel called a Directory Control Unit (DCU) which is responsible for interfacing between the L2 caches in each panel to the CMCs (see § Panel Architecture). Phytium noted that it's optimized for exclusive atomic accesses.
Xiaomi implements a 2D concentrated mesh architecture on-die connecting each of the panels. Phytium "Mars" chip contains 8 panels which are organized in two rows of four panels each. Switching is relatively low latency with 3 cycles per hop. On average, packets will have around 9 cycles latency from any other panel. This network results in a bandwidth of 384 GiB/s each cell.
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Die[edit]
SoC[edit]
- Mars is fabricated on TSMC's 28 nm process
- 10 metal layers
- 4,800,000,000 transistors
- ~180 million instances
- 639.576 mm² die size
- 25.38 mm x 25.2 mm
- FCBGA Package
- ~3000 pins
- 0.9 VCORE, 1.8 VIO
- 2 GHz, 120 W
All Mars I Processors[edit]
List of Mars I-based Processors | ||||||
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Model | Launched | Cores | L2 | Frequency | TDP | |
FT-2000/64 | 2017 | 64 | 32 MiB 32,768 KiB 33,554,432 B 0.0313 GiB | 2 GHz 2,000 MHz 2,000,000 kHz | 120 W 120,000 mW 0.161 hp 0.12 kW | |
Count: 1 |
Bibliography[edit]
- Phytium, IEEE Hot Chips 27 Symposium (HCS) 2015.
codename | Mars I + |
core count | 64 + |
designer | Phytium + |
first launched | 2017 + |
full page name | phytium/microarchitectures/mars i + |
instance of | microarchitecture + |
instruction set architecture | ARMv8 + |
manufacturer | TSMC + |
microarchitecture type | CPU + |
name | Mars I + |
process | 28 nm (0.028 μm, 2.8e-5 mm) + |