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Tools and Toolchain

Antti Lukats edited this page Oct 26, 2018 · 19 revisions

FPGA Tools

Libero, iCEcube2 and Radiant require a license, free license is available.

It is usually much easier to install the node locked license.

Libero

This is the only FPGA tool for Microsemi targets, free silver license can be used

Libero download link

Request Silver license

iCEcube2

Download/License link

Radiant

Download/License link

iceStorm

Open source FPGA toolchain supports iCE40, no license needed. Setup maybe complicated as it most likely requires the toolchain to be fully recompiled from sources.

Simulation Tools

OVPsim

This is free commercial tool, you can get free personal use license (flexlm) keys for 90 days.

RISCV demos are included, running Dhrystone demos out of the box will give

Measured time too small to obtain meaningful results

message - so it seems the out of the box demos are not tested.

renode

Amazing free and open source tool. Easy download, runs out of the box. Support for Microsemi MI-V included.

Verilator

This is a trick, you can take some known RISCV verilog code, run it through verilator and use the resulting executable as mini Simulator.

Compiler Tools

Notes:

GCC generates verilog memory files with as bytes, they would most likely load wrong with verilog $readmem, conversion to 32 bit mem file format is possible using python script from picorv32 project hex8tohex32.py

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