This repo contains scripts to recreate Hermes network-on-chip Demo project. It consists of a 2x2 NoC connected to Zynq and 3 toy hardware accelerators. The project is setup for Zedboard, although it would be easy to change to other boards assuming you have some basic TCL skills.
This module has a 2x2 mesh NoC with the following IPs connected to it:
- address 0x0000) Zynq
- address 0x0001) Counter + 1
- address 0x0100) Counter + 2
- address 0x0101) Counter + 3
The test software called noc_test sends packets from the Zynq to each of the counters and each counter reply with the packet payload incremented by 1, 2, or 3, depending on the target counter. The software compares the received packet with the expected one to determine if it has a match or not.
This repository might have custom IPs included as git submodules. Thus, the following command is required to download all its dependencies.
git clone --recursive https://github.com/amamory/<repo-name>.git
If you already cloned the repository without --recursive, then run the following command to download all the submodules.
git submodule update --init --recursive
Refer to this tutorial to learn how to manage submodules.
These scripts are assuming Linux operation system (Ubuntu 18.04) and Vivado 2018.2.
Follow these instructions to recreate the Vivado and SDK projects:
- Open the build.sh script and edit the first two lines to setup the environment variables:
- VIVADO: path to the Vivado install dir;
- VIVADO_DESIGN_NAME: mandatory name of the design
- XIL_APP_NAME: used only in projects with software. Not used in this design;
- VIVADO_TOP_NAME: set the top name (optional).
- run build.sh
These scripts will recreate the entire Vivado project, compile the design, generate the bitstream, export the hardware to SDK, create the SDK projects, import the source files, build all projects, and finally download both the bitstream and the elf application. Hopefully, all these steps will be executed automatically.
These scripts come from a template repository and they get updated and improved over time. If you wish to get the latest script version, then follow these steps:
git remote add template https://github.com/amamory/vivado-base-project.git
git fetch --all
git merge --no-commit --no-ff template/master --allow-unrelated-histories
Solve any conflict manually and then commit.
- update the scripts to Vitis
- support or test with Windows (help required !!! :D )
The scripts are based on the excellent scripts from fpgadesigner plus few increments from my own such as project generalization, support to SDK project creation and compilation and other minor improvements.