UninaSoC

RISC-V soft-SoC extensible plaftorm for Xilinx FPGAs from University of Naples Federico II.

NOTE: the name is temporary...

SoC Configuration Profile

The SoC comes in two flavors, hpc and embedded, with multiple boards supported for each configuration. Valid Soc Configuration and boards are:

Supported boards:

Embedded:

• Nexys A7-100T
• Nexys A7-50T

HPC:

• Alveo U250

Todo:

• (TBD) Zybo
• (TBD) ZCU102
• (TBD) Alveo U50
• (TBD) Alveo U280

Build and Run:

The top-level Makefile can be used to build the System-on-Chip for the specific target board.

First, setup environment with:

source settings.sh <soc_config> <board>

NOTE: If no input parameter is specificed, the embedded profile and the Nexys A7-100T are selected.

Then, download rtl sources for non-xilinx IPS

make units

Finally, build the SoC bitstream by running:

make xilinx

Simulation flow (TBD):

The choice of the simulator is driven by the choice of the IPs and required licenses. We target two simulation flows:

• Unit tests: Verilator
  • Royalty-free, good for students
  • No support for Xilin IPs
• SoC-level tests, QuestaSim:
  • Requires license
  • Supports Xilinx IPs
  • Students can access a licensed host for simulator access

Environment and Tools Version

Documentation Index

If you need finer-grained documentation and insights to control the building flow, refer to the documentation:

• Units RTL hw/units/README.md
• Xilinx FPGA hw/xilinx/README.md
• Software build hw/sw/README.md

Building and Loading Software

TBD

TODO

• Design address space
  • Finalized linker script
  • Device tree (template + generation)

ES Project 2024

Basic projects:

1. AXI Crossbar: Autogenerate linker script + Xilinx AXI crossbar address map from a configuration file
2. AXI UART: Bare-metal driver xlnx axi uart in C, not asssemby
3. JTAG2AXI: Verify jtag2axi integration
4. Alveo porting: Port SoC on Alveo
5. Bootrom: design and development
6. DRAM: MIG IP (DDR) integration
7. Interrupts: interrupt system design
8. SPI flash: Integrate + PoC boot from SPI flash
9. Debugger: JTAG debug core + OpenOCD/GDB
10. Design probing: ILA integration in SoC flow

Advanced projects:

11. Linux in-memory boot
12. Linux SPI flash boot
13. CoVe: extension implementation