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# NOTE

This section is under revision (and is optional)

# REMAP <a name="remap" />

REMAP allows the usual vector loop `0..VL-1` to be "reshaped" (re-mapped) from a linear
form to a 2D or 3D transposed form, or "offset" to permit arbitrary
access to elements, independently on each Vector src or dest register.

Their primary use is for Matrix Multiplication, reordering of sequential data in-place.  Four CSRs are provided so that a single FMAC may be used in a single loop to perform 4x4 times 4x4 Matrix multiplication, generating 64 FMACs.  Additional uses include regular "Structure Packing" such as RGB pixel data extraction and reforming.

# SHAPE 1D/2D/3D vector-matrix remapping CSRs

There are four "shape" CSRs, SHAPE0-3, 32-bits in each,
which have the same format.  

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The algorithm below shows how REMAP works more clearly, and may be
executed as a python program:

    xdim = 3
    ydim = 4
    zdim = 1

    lims = [xdim, ydim, zdim]
    idxs = [0,0,0] # starting indices
    order = [0,1,2] # experiment with different permutations, here
    offset = 2     # experiment with different offset, here
    VL = xdim * ydim * zdim # multiply (or add) to this to get "cycling"
    applydim = 0
    invxyz = [0,0,0]

    # run for offset iterations before actually starting
    for idx in range(offset):
        for i in range(3):
            idxs[order[i]] = idxs[order[i]] + 1
            if (idxs[order[i]] != lims[order[i]]):
                break
            idxs[order[i]] = 0

    break_count = 0

    for idx in range(VL):
        ix = [0] * 3
        for i in range(3):
            if i >= applydim:
                ix[i] = idxs[i]
            if invxyz[i]:
                ix[i] = lims[i] - 1 - ix[i]
        new_idx = ix[0] + ix[1] * xdim + ix[2] * xdim * ydim
        print new_idx,
        break_count += 1
        if break_count == lims[order[0]]:
            print
            break_count = 0
        for i in range(3):
            idxs[order[i]] = idxs[order[i]] + 1
            if (idxs[order[i]] != lims[order[i]]):
                break
            idxs[order[i]] = 0

Here, it is assumed that this algorithm be run within all pseudo-code
throughout this document where a (parallelism) for-loop would normally
run from 0 to VL-1 to refer to contiguous register
elements; instead, where REMAP indicates to do so, the element index
is run through the above algorithm to work out the **actual** element
index, instead.  Given that there are four possible SHAPE entries, up to
four separate registers in any given operation may be simultaneously
remapped:

    function op_add(rd, rs1, rs2) # add not VADD!
      ...
      ...
      for (i = 0; i < VL; i++)
        xSTATE.srcoffs = i # save context
        if (predval & 1<<i) # predication uses intregs
           ireg[rd+remap(id)] <= ireg[rs1+remap(irs1)] +
                                 ireg[rs2+remap(irs2)];
           if (!int_vec[rd ].isvector) break;
        if (int_vec[rd ].isvector)  { id += 1; }
        if (int_vec[rs1].isvector)  { irs1 += 1; }
        if (int_vec[rs2].isvector)  { irs2 += 1; }

By changing remappings, 2D matrices may be transposed "in-place" for one
operation, followed by setting a different permutation order without
having to move the values in the registers to or from memory.

Note that:

* Over-running the register file clearly has to be detected and
  an illegal instruction exception thrown
* When non-default elwidths are set, the exact same algorithm still
  applies (i.e. it offsets elements *within* registers rather than
  entire registers).
* If permute option 000 is utilised, the actual order of the
  reindexing does not change.  However, modulo MVL still occurs
  which will result in repeated operations (use with caution).
* If two or more dimensions are set to zero, the actual order does not change!
* The above algorithm is pseudo-code **only**.  Actual implementations
  will need to take into account the fact that the element for-looping
  must be **re-entrant**, due to the possibility of exceptions occurring.
  See MSTATE CSR, which records the current element index.
* Twin-predicated operations require **two** separate and distinct
  element offsets.  The above pseudo-code algorithm will be applied
  separately and independently to each, should each of the two
  operands be remapped.  *This even includes C.LDSP* and other operations
  in that category, where in that case it will be the **offset** that is
  remapped (see Compressed Stack LOAD/STORE section).
* Offset is especially useful, on its own, for accessing elements
  within the middle of a register.  Without offsets, it is necessary
  to either use a predicated MV, skipping the first elements, or
  performing a LOAD/STORE cycle to memory.
  With offsets, the data does not have to be moved.
* Setting the total elements (xdim+1) times (ydim+1) times (zdim+1) to
  less than MVL is **perfectly legal**, albeit very obscure.  It permits
  entries to be regularly presented to operands **more than once**, thus
  allowing the same underlying registers to act as an accumulator of
  multiple vector or matrix operations, for example.

Clearly here some considerable care needs to be taken as the remapping
could hypothetically create arithmetic operations that target the
exact same underlying registers, resulting in data corruption due to
pipeline overlaps.  Out-of-order / Superscalar micro-architectures with
register-renaming will have an easier time dealing with this than
DSP-style SIMD micro-architectures.

# 4x4 Matrix to vec4 Multiply Example

The following settings will allow a 4x4 matrix (starting at f8), expressed as a sequence of 16 numbers first by row then by column, to be multiplied by a vector of length 4 (starting at f0), using a single FMAC instruction.

* SHAPE0: xdim=4, ydim=4, permute=yx, applied to f0
* SHAPE1: xdim=4, ydim=1, permute=xy, applied to f4
* VL=16, f4=vec, f0=vec, f8=vec
* FMAC f4, f0, f8, f4

The permutation on SHAPE0 will use f0 as a vec4 source. On the first four iterations through the hardware loop, the REMAPed index will not increment. On the second four, the index will increase by one. Likewise on each subsequent group of four.

The permutation on SHAPE1 will increment f4 continuously cycling through f4-f7 every four iterations of the hardware loop.

At the same time, VL will, because there is no SHAPE on f8, increment straight sequentially through the 16 values f8-f23 in the Matrix. The equivalent sequence thus is issued:

    fmac f4, f0, f8, f4
    fmac f5, f0, f9, f5
    fmac f6, f0, f10, f6
    fmac f7, f0, f11, f7
    fmac f4, f1, f12, f4
    fmac f5, f1, f13, f5
    fmac f6, f1, f14, f6
    fmac f7, f1, f15, f7
    fmac f4, f2, f16, f4
    fmac f5, f2, f17, f5
    fmac f6, f2, f18, f6
    fmac f7, f2, f19, f7
    fmac f4, f3, f20, f4
    fmac f5, f3, f21, f5
    fmac f6, f3, f22, f6
    fmac f7, f3, f23, f7

The only other instruction required is to ensure that f4-f7 are initialised (usually to zero).

It should be clear that a 4x4 by 4x4 Matrix Multiply, being effectively the same technique applied to four independent vectors, can be done by setting VL=64, using an extra dimension on the SHAPE0 and SHAPE1 CSRs, and applying a rotating 1D SHAPE CSR of xdim=16 to f8 in order to get it to apply four times to compute the four columns worth of vectors.