Split the main power supply into managment and two user areas.  Mostly
put back together again from phase2, although only the gpio testbench
has been updated, and the gpio tesbench is currently not passing although
most signals seem to be right.  Modified the memory map to allow for an
additional word in the management I/O GPIO read/write data, and rewrote
the code to handle any number of I/Os in the user space, expanding the
memory map by one word for every 32 user GPIO pads (there are currently
37 user GPIO pads specified, so this change resolves issues with the
upper 5 pads;  the last phase2 design defined only 32 user I/O pads).
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README.md

CIIC Harness (Phase 1)

A template SoC for Google SKY130 free shuttles. It is still WIP. The current SoC architecture is given below.

Managment SoC

The managment SoC runs firmware taht can be used to:

  • Configure Mega Project I/O pads
  • Observe and control Mega Project signals (through on-chip logic analyzer probes)
  • Control the Mega Project power supply

The memory map of the management SoC is given below

Mega Project Area

This is the user space. It has limitted silicon area (???) as well as a fixed number of I/O pads (???). The repoo contains a sample mega project that contains a binary 32-bit up counter.

The firmware running on the Management Area SoC, configures the I/O pads used by the counter and uses the logic probes to observe/control the counter. Three firmware examples are provided:

  1. Configure the Mega Project I/O pads as o/p. Observe the counter value in the testbench: IO_Ports Test.
  2. Configure the Mega Project I/O pads as o/p. Use the Chip LA to load the counter and observe the o/p till it reaches 500: LA_Test1.
  3. Configure the Mega Project I/O pads as o/p. Use the Chip LA to control the clock source and reset signals and observe the counter value for five clock cylcles: LA_Test2.