HW6 Task 1 - Conversion

Supplement to the hw6 main assignment.

Basically, you want to create a new model that is derived from your HW5 solution by converting the IF component to an ICache and the MemoryInterface component to a DCache. Unfortunately, SMOK won't let you convert components to completely different types, so you'll have to delete the old ones, add the new ones, and reconnect. When you're done, the machine should work (as well as it ever did), since the distributed ICache and DCache implementations are exactly the IF and MemoryInterace functionality.

I did the following to convert my model:

• Make a complete copy of the HW5 machine -- data path and associated PLAs. The new copy will become the HW6 machine.

• Run two copies of SMOK, one loaded with the HW5 machine and the other with the new HW6 machine.

• Delete the IF and MemoryInterace components from the HW6 machine.

• Single-click on the IF in the HW5 machine to highlight its connections. Re-establish those connections in the HW6 machine.

• Do the same for the MemoryController.

• If any of the input ports on the MemoryController do not read the entire 32-bits of input, adjust the parameters of the corresponding input ports on the DCache in the HW6 model.

• Et voilà.