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Complete roundtrip for caravel_user_project
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1. To start the project you need to first create an empty Git project on Github and make sure your repo is public and includes a README
2. Open your Terminal. Create an empty folder to use as your Caravel workspace, and navigate to it.
.. code:: bash
# Create a directory and call it anything you want
mkdir -p caravel_tutorial
# navigate into the directory
cd caravel_tutorial
3. Clone caravel_user_project and setup the git environment as follows
.. code:: bash
# Make sure that ``caravel_example`` matches the empty github repo name in step 1
git clone -b mpw-5a https://github.com/efabless/caravel_user_project caravel_example
cd caravel_example
git remote rename origin upstream
# You need to put your empty github repo URL from step 1
git remote add origin <your github repo URL>
# Create a new branch, you can name it anything
git checkout -b <my_branch>
git push -u origin <my_branch>
4. Now that your git environment is setup, it's time to setup your local environment. (NOTE: docker is a prerequisite to setting up your environment)
.. code:: bash
# to install caravel-lite into your caravel_user_project
# you can install full caravel (not recommended) use ``export CARAVEL_LITE=0``
make install
# The default for the management core is litex, to install the pico version use
export MCW=pico
# To install the management core for simulation
make install_mcw
# To clone the management core pico for simulation
git clone git@github.com:efabless/caravel_pico.git
# Install openlane for hardening your project
# make sure to change <directory_name> with the directory you created in step 1
# in this case it is caravel_tutorial
export OPENLANE_ROOT=~/<directory_name>/openlane # you need to export this whenever you start a new shell
make openlane
# Build the pdk
# make sure to change <directory_name> with the directory you created in step 1
# in this case it is caravel_tutorial
export PDK_ROOT=~/<directory_name>/pdks # you need to export this whenever you start a new shell
make pdk
5. Now you can start hardening your design, for example
.. code:: bash
make user_proj_example
make user_project_wrapper
6. To run simulation on your design
.. code:: bash
make simenv
# you can run RTL/GL simulations by using
export SIM=RTL
# OR
export SIM=GL
# you can then run the simulations using
make verify-<testbench-name>
# for example
make verify-io_ports
7. To run the precheck locally
.. code:: bash
make precheck
make run-precheck
17. You are done! now go to www.efabless.com to submit your project!
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.. |User CI| image:: https://github.com/efabless/caravel_project_example/actions/workflows/user_project_ci.yml/badge.svg
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