Microwatt Tests

To run these you need icarus verilog, a riscv toolchain and a ppc64le toolchain. On Fedora these are available as packages:

sudo dnf install iverilog gcc-riscv64-linux-gnu gcc-powerpc64le-linux-gnu

And on Ubuntu:

sudo apt install iverilog gcc-riscv64-linux-gnu gcc-powerpc64le-linux-gnu

The test cases need a path to the PDK, eg:

make PDK_PATH=/home/anton/pdk/sky130A

minimal

This is probably where you should start. This is a minimal test that verifies that Microwatt is running. The SPI flash controller is lightly tested because Microwatt uses it to fetch instructions for the test case. The logic analyzer is also lightly tested because Microwatt uses that to signal back to the management engine that it is alive.

uart

This tests the management engine handing over the TX and RX I/O pins to Microwatt, and Microwatt receiving a character and echoing it back.

logic_analyzer

Microwatt has 32 LA inputs and 32 LA outputs hooked up. This tests that functionality by ping ponging an LFSR sequence between the management engine and Microwatt. Each value in the sequence is checked before emitting the next one.

spi_flash

Before starting flash is initialized with a hash of the offset. The test case then does reads at various offsets and checks if the values returned are correct.

memory_test

A simple memory tester. Writes hashes of the offset of memory into memory, then reads them back.