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Migen inside
Build your hardware, easily!
Copyright 2012-2018 / EnjoyDigital
[> Intro
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LiteX is an alternative to MiSoC maintained and used by Enjoy-Digital to build
our cores, integrate them in complete SoC and load/flash them to the hardware
and experiment new features. (structure is kept close to MiSoC to ease
collaboration)
Typical LiteX design flow:
--------------------------
+---------------+
|FPGA toolchains|
+----^-----+----+
| |
+--+-----v--+
+-------+ | |
| Migen +--------> |
+-------+ | | Your design
| LiteX +---> ready to be used!
| |
+----------------------+ | |
|LiteX Cores Ecosystem +--> |
+----------------------+ +-^-------^-+
(Eth, SATA, DRAM, USB, | |
PCIe, Video, etc...) + +
board target
file file
LiteX already supports various softcores CPUs: LM32, Mor1kx, PicoRV32, VexRiscv
and is compatible with the LiteX's Cores Ecosystem:
- LiteDRAM: https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litedram
- LiteEth: https://github.com/enjoy-digital/liteeth
- LitePCIe: https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litepcie
- LiteSATA: https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litesata
- LiteUSB: https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litesata
- LiteSDCard: https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litesdcard
- LiteICLink: https://github.com/enjoy-digital/liteiclink
- LiteJESD204B: https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litejesd204b
- LiteVideo: https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litevideo
- LiteScope: https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litescope
[> Sub-packages
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gen:
Provides specific or experimental modules to generate HDL that are not integrated
in Migen.
build:
Provides tools to build FPGA bitstreams (interface to vendor toolchains) and to
simulate HDL code or full SoCs.
soc:
Provides definitions/modules to build cores (bus, bank, flow), cores and tools
to build a SoC from such cores.
boards:
Provides platforms and targets for the supported boards. All Migen's platforms
can also be used in LiteX.
[> Very Quick start guide (for newcomers)
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TimVideos.us has done an awesome job for setting up a LiteX environment easily in
the litex-buildenv repo: https://github.com/timvideos/litex-buildenv
It's recommended for newcomers to go this way. Various FPGA boards are supported
and multiple examples provided! You can even run Linux on your FPGA using LiteX
very easily!
Migen documentation can be found here: https://m-labs.hk/migen/manual
FPGA lessons/tutorials can be found at: https://github.com/enjoy-digital/fpga_101
[> Medium Quick start guide with Conda
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0. Get miniconda by following instructions at https://conda.io/miniconda.html
1. Clone LiteX
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex.git
2. Create a LiteX environment from environment.yml
conda env create -f environment.yml
3. Enter conda environment
conda activate litex
4. Build the target of your board...:
Go to boards/targets and execute the target you want to build
[> Quick start guide (for advanced users)
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0. Install Python 3.5+ and FPGA vendor's development tools.
1. Get litex_setup.py script and execute:
./litex_setup.py init install
This will clone and install Migen, LiteX and LiteX's cores.
To update all repositories execute:
./litex_setup.py update
2. Compile and install binutils. Take the latest version from GNU.
mkdir build && cd build
../configure --target=lm32-elf
make
make install
3. (Optional, only if you want to use a lm32 CPU in you SoC)
Compile and install GCC. Take gcc-core and gcc-g++ from GNU
(version 4.5 or >=4.9).
rm -rf libstdc++-v3
mkdir build && cd build
../configure --target=lm32-elf --enable-languages="c,c++" --disable-libgcc \
--disable-libssp
make
make install
4. Build the target of your board...:
Go to boards/targets and execute the target you want to build
5. ... and/or install Verilator and test LiteX on your computer:
Download and install Verilator: http://www.veripool.org/
Install libevent-devel / json-c-devel packages
Go to boards/targets
./sim.py
6. Run a terminal program on the board's serial port at 115200 8-N-1.
You should get the BIOS prompt.
[> Contact
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E-mail: florent [AT] enjoy-digital.fr