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A minor enhancement was made to the M4 memory subsystem. In the M3, there were three AGUs - two dedicated Load [[AGUs]] and a single dedicated Store [[AUG]]. In the M4, Samsung changed one of the dedicated Load [[AGU]]s into a generic AGU capable of handling both loads and stores. In other words, the M4 can now schedule both load and store µOPs on two ports.
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Revision as of 17:09, 9 March 2019

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Mongoose 4 µarch
General Info
Arch TypeCPU
DesignerSamsung
ManufacturerSamsung
Introduction2019
Process8 nm
Core Configs4
Pipeline
TypeSuperscalar, Superpipeline
OoOEYes
SpeculativeYes
Reg RenamingYes
Stages16
Decode6-way
Instructions
ISAARMv8.2
Cache
L1I Cache64 KiB/core
4-way set associative
L1D Cache64 KiB/core
8-way set associative
L2 Cache512 KiB/core
8-way set associative
L3 Cache4 MiB/cluster
16-way set associative
Succession

Exynos Mongoose 4 (M4) is the successor to the Mongoose 3, an 8 nm ARM microarchitecture designed by Samsung for their consumer electronics.

Process Technology

The M4 is fabricated on Samsung's 8 nm process (8LPP).

Compiler support

Compiler Arch-Specific Arch-Favorable
GCC -mcpu=exynos-m4 -mtune=exynos-m4
LLVM -mcpu=exynos-m4 -mtune=exynos-m4


Architecture

The M4 is an incremental microarchitecture that brought a die shrink and minor enhancements.

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Key changes from M3

  • 8 nm process (from 10 nm)
  • ARMv8.2 (from ARMv8)
    • Support for full FP16 scalar extension
    • Suppot for integer dot product extension
  • Front end
  • Back end
    • LSU executiion units reorganized
    • Floating-point execution units reorganized

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Block Diagram

Individual Core

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Memory Hierarchy

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Core

The core of the M4 is largely the same as M3. A number of buffers have been enlarged and some of the execution units have been reorganized.

Execution engine

Floating-point cluster

The execution units on the M4 have been reorganized. In total, three new units were also added - a second FP square root unit, a second vector multiplication unit, and a new horizontal vector arithmetic unit.

Floating-point pipe changes.

Memory subsystem

m4 data cache.svg

A minor enhancement was made to the M4 memory subsystem. In the M3, there were three AGUs - two dedicated Load AGUs and a single dedicated Store AGU. In the M4, Samsung changed one of the dedicated Load AGUs into a generic AGU capable of handling both loads and stores. In other words, the M4 can now schedule both load and store µOPs on two ports.

All M4 Processors

 List of M4-based Processors
 Main processorIntegrated Graphics
ModelFamilyLaunchedArchCoresFrequencyGPUFrequency
Count: 0

Bibliography

  • LLVM: lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64SchedExynosM4.td
codenameMongoose 4 +
core count4 +
designerSamsung +
first launched2019 +
full page namesamsung/microarchitectures/m4 +
instance ofmicroarchitecture +
instruction set architectureARMv8.2 +
manufacturerSamsung +
microarchitecture typeCPU +
nameMongoose 4 +
pipeline stages16 +
process8 nm (0.008 μm, 8.0e-6 mm) +