Chisel Priority Queue

Background

The microarchitecture is based off of this paper. Efficent-Priority-Queue

Dependencies

JDK 8 or newer

We recommend LTS releases Java 8 and Java 11. You can install the JDK as recommended by your operating system, or use the prebuilt binaries from AdoptOpenJDK.

SBT or mill

SBT is the most common built tool in the Scala community. You can download it here.
mill is another Scala/Java build tool without obscure DSL like SBT. You can download it here

Getting started

First lets clone the repo

git clone git@github.com:ucb-bar/chisel-priorityqueue.git
cd chisel-priorityqueue

We can generate verilog by

sbt run

We can run unit tests by

sbt test

You should see a whole bunch of output that ends with something like the following lines

[info] Tests: succeeded 1, failed 0, canceled 0, ignored 0, pending 0
[info] All tests passed.
[success] Total time: 5 s, completed Dec 16, 2020 12:18:44 PM

If you see the above then...

It worked!

Other resources

• Chisel Bootcamp
• Chisel3