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GNU Make Support

Experimental support for using GNU Make to drive simulation of the bitvis_uart and bitvis_irqc examples is now included. The script subdirectory of these examples now includes a Makefile which can be used to compile, simulate and view the resulting waveform in GTKWave. The supported simulators are GHDL, NVC, ModelSim and Questa.

To try it out, open a terminal, navigate to the script subdirectory of the relevant example, then run make, specifying the simulator as the target. For example, on Windows/MSYS2, in a Windows Command Prompt:

cd C:\work\UVVM\bitvis_uart\script
make ghdl

Replace C:\work\UVVM with the correct path to your clone of the UVVM repository.

The heavy lifting is done by a couple of Makefile includes (multisim.mk and example.mk) and a shell script (vcd2gtkw.sh) which are located in the main script directory, along with Makefile_template which can be used as a starting point for using Makefiles in your own projects.

Notes:

  1. On Windows, MSYS2 is recommended. Use pacman to install make (required) and git (recommended).
  2. At present, precompiled UVVM libraries are required. See the simulator specific notes below for details.

Simulator Specific Notes

GHDL

To precompile the UVVM libraries and VIPs, run the compile-uvvm.sh script which is located in the vendors subdirectory of the GHDL libraries directory. On Linux, the default location of this directory is /usr/local/lib/ghdl; on Windows/MSYS2, the default location is C:\msys64\mingw64\lib\ghdl.

NVC

UVVM support in NVC is partially complete, but sufficient for the examples.

To precompile the UVVM libraries and VIPs, run the following command:

nvc --install uvvm

ModelSim/Questa

The compile_all.do script located in the main script directory can be used to precompile the UVVM libraries and VIPs. Choose (or create) an appropriate directory for user precompiled libraries, and create a uvvm subdirectory under it. This subdirectory is the 2nd argument to the script. For example, on Windows/MSYS2, enter the following command in a Windows Command Prompt:

vsim -c -do "do C:/work/UVVM/script/compile_all.do C:/work/UVVM/script C:/work/.simlib/uvvm; exit"
  • Replace C:/work/UVVM with the correct path to your clone of the UVVM repository.
  • Replace C:/work/.simlib with the correct path to your precompiled libraries directory.
  • Note the forward slashes!

The multisim.mk Makefile include assumes that precompiled libraries are located in the .simlib subdirectory of the home directory. You can change this by setting the SIM_LIB_PATH variable in your Makefile.