GreenLib

Overview

Productivity library for SystemC modelling

• GreenReg : Easy accessible register modeling
• GreenSocket : More advanced and customized socket
• GreenSignalSocket : Model all the ports corresponding to different signals in an IP
• GreenConfig : Flexible configuration and inspection
• GreenControl : Router that connects user modules with service providers (plugins)
• GreenMessage : A framework to pass messages from one SystemC module to another
• GreenSerialSocket : TLM2 based Asynchronous Serial communication protocol which can be used to model industry standard serial interfaces like UART Model
• GreenScript : SystemC module using python
• GreenRouter : Connect the IPs using the GreenSocket infrastructure
• GreenMemory : Implementation of a sparse memory array to simplify the implementation of more complex memories

Code status

Requirements

GreenLib requires :

• GIT > 1.8.2
• SystemC¹ 2.1.0 to 2.3.1
• CMake > 2.8
• Boost > 1.34
• Python
• Glib2
• Pixman
• Lua > 5.1
• SWIG

OS support :

• Linux (Debian/Ubuntu, CentOS)
• Windows² with MinGW
• OS X : soon

Install requirements

Linux

Ubuntu / Debian :

$ sudo apt-get install cmake libboost-dev python-dev liblua5.2-dev swig

CentOS / Fedora :

$ sudo yum install cmake boost-devel python-devel lua-devel swig

Windows

Please try to install packages in paths without spaces.

• MinGW with MSYS
• CMake
• Boost
• SWIG
• LUA
• SystemC

With MinGW Installer, install these following packages :

MinGW

• gcc
• gcc-g++

Build

$ cmake [options]

This will result in generating the Makefile to build GreenLib.

Available options are:

• CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX³ : Specify install directory used by install.
• SYSTEMC_PREFIX : Specify SystemC prefix (Otherwise, CMake will scan SYSTEMC_HOME environment variable)
• LUA_LIBRARIES : Specify LUA libraries directory (where is located lua.a, lua.dll, ...).
• LUA_INCLUDE_DIR : Specify LUA header directory (where is located lua.h).
• BOOST_ROOT : Specify Boost directory.
• SWIG_DIR : Specify SWIG directory (where is located swig binary).
• SWIG_EXECUTABLE : Specify SWIG binary path.
• -G : Specify build tools. Currently, we only support "Unix Makefiles".

Example

Linux

$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=build -DSYSTEMC_PREFIX=/usr/local/lib/systemc-2.3.0/

(The default value of CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX is /usr/local).

Windows

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=build 
-DSYSTEMC_PREFIX=/c/Projects/systemc-2.3.1 \
-DLUA_LIBRARIES=/c/Projects/lua-5.2.4/src/liblua.a 
-DLUA_INCLUDE_DIR=/c/Projects/lua-5.2.4/src/ \
-DBOOST_ROOT=/c/Projects/boost-1-57-0/ \
-DSWIG_DIR=/c/Projects/swigwin-3.0.5 
-DSWIG_EXECUTABLE=/c/Projects/swigwin-3.0.5/swig.exe \
-G"Unix Makefiles" 

Then compile ⁴:

make

This action will result in the compilation of GreenLib.

Check

make check

or with parallel jobs:

make check -j[Specifies the number of jobs (commands) to run simultaneously]

This action will compile examples and check output with expected output.

If everything is OK, you should get "100% tests passed" message.

Installation

make install

This action will result in a package of GreenLib where you have defined CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX.

Usage

• Copy the misc/FindGreenLib.cmake file in your project repository.
• Add the following lines into your CMakeLists.txt:

find_package(GreenLib)
if(GreenLib_FOUND)
	include_directories(${GREENLIB_INCLUDE_DIRS})
   link_directories(${GREENLIB_LIBRARY_DIRS})
else()
	message(FATAL_ERROR "GreenLib not found.")
endif()

Contributing

GreenLib is an open source, community-driven project. If you'd like to contribute, please feel free to fork project and open a merge request or to send us a patch.

Footnotes

1. On Windows, GreenLib requires SystemC 2.3.1. ↩

2. Currently, we don't support GreenScript on Windows. ↩

3. Default value is /usr/local ↩

4. Currenlty, we don't support parallel jobs. We are working on it. ↩