Twine is a standalone multi-threaded RV32I core that should be easy to incorporate into any FPGA project. It has a simple 4-stage pipeline with support for 4 threads, and provides a single Avalon master interface for connecting to peripherals. On Terasic's DE5-NET, it runs at over 330MHz and requires 470 ALMs.
You will need Bluespec compiler (bsc) to build Twine.
Download, build and install the RISC-V compiler tools from:
https://github.com/riscv/riscv-tools
Ensure the RISCV environment variable is set and $RISCV/bin is in
your PATH.
To run the RISC-V test suite, starting from the twine directory:
make clean
make -C rtl
cd tests
./run.sh
To build the software that runs on the core (hello world), starting
from the twine directory:
make -C software
To build an FPGA bit-file, you need Quartus v16.0 or above:
make clean
make -C de5
To download the bit-file onto FPGA:
make -C de5 download-sof
To view the output of the software running on the FPGA:
nios2-terminal
To update the bit-file after changing the software:
make -C de5 update-mif
