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+ Migen inside
- Copyright 2014-2015 / Florent Kermarrec / florent@enjoy-digital.fr
-
- A small footprint and configurable SATA core
- developed in partnership with M-Labs Ltd & HKU
+ Build your hardware, easily!
+ Copyright 2012-2018 / EnjoyDigital
[> Intro
------------
-LiteSATA provides a small footprint and configurable SATA1/2/3 core.
-
-LiteSATA is part of LiteX libraries whose aims is to lower entry level of complex
-FPGA IP cores by providing simple, elegant and efficient implementations of
-components used in today's SoC such as Ethernet, SATA, PCIe, SDRAM Controller...
-
-The core uses simple and specific streaming buses and will provides in the future
-adapters to use standardized AXI or Avalon-ST streaming buses.
-
-Since Python is used to describe the HDL, the core is highly and easily
-configurable.
-
-The synthetizable BIST can be used as a starting point to integrate SATA in
-your own SoC.
-
-LiteSATA uses technologies developed in partnership with M-Labs Ltd:
- - Migen enables generating HDL with Python in an efficient way.
- - MiSoC provides the basic blocks to build a powerful and small footprint SoC.
-
-LiteSATA can be used as a Migen/MiSoC library (by simply installing it
-with the provided setup.py) or can be integrated with your standard design flow
-by generating the verilog rtl that you will use as a standard core.
-
-[> Features
-------------------
-PHY:
- - OOB, COMWAKE, COMINIT
- - ALIGN inserter/remover and bytes alignment on K28.5
- - 8B/10B encoding/decoding in transceiver
- - Errors detection and reporting
- - 32 bits interface
- - 1.5/3.0/6.0GBps supported speeds (respectively 37.5/75/150MHz system clk)
-Core:
- Link:
- - CONT inserter/remover
- - Scrambling/Descrambling of data
- - CRC inserter/checker
- - HOLD insertion/detection
- - Errors detection and reporting
- Transport/Command:
- - Easy to use user interfaces (Can be used with or without CPU)
- - 48 bits sector addressing
- - 3 supported commands: READ_DMA(_EXT), WRITE_DMA(_EXT), IDENTIFY_DEVICE
- - Errors detection and reporting
-
-Frontend:
- - Configurable crossbar (simply use core.crossbar.get_port() to add a new port!)
- - Ports arbitration transparent to the user
- - Synthetizable BIST
-
-[> Possibles improvements
-----------------------
-- add standardized interfaces (AXI, Avalon-ST)
-- add NCQ support
-- add AES hardware encryption
-- add on-the-flow compression/decompression
-- add support for Altera PHYs.
-- add support for Lattice PHYs.
-- add support for Xilinx 7-Series GTP/GTH (currently only 7-Series GTX are
- supported)
-- add Zynq Linux drivers.
-- ...
-
-If you want to support these features, please contact us at florent [AT]
-enjoy-digital.fr. You can also contact our partner on the public mailing list
-devel [AT] lists.m-labs.hk.
-
-[> Getting started
-------------------
-1. Install Python3 and Xilinx's Vivado software
-
-2. Obtain Migen and install it:
- git clone https://github.com/enjoy-digital/migen
- cd migen
- python3 setup.py install
- cd ..
-
-3. Obtain Miscope and install it:
- git clone https://github.com/enjoy-digital/miscope
- cd miscope
- python3 setup.py install
- cd ..
-
-4. Obtain MiSoC:
- git clone https://github.com/enjoy-digital/misoc --recursive
-
-5. Copy lite-sata in working directory and move to it.
-
-6. Build and load design:
- python3 make.py all
-
-7. Test design:
- go to test directory and run:
- python3 bist.py
-
-[> Simulations:
- Simulations are avalaible in ./lib/sata/test:
- - crc_tb
- - scrambler_tb
- - phy_datapath_tb
- - link_tb
- - command_tb
- - bist_tb
- hdd.py is a simplified HDD model implementing all SATA layers.
- To run a simulation, move to ./lib/sata/test and run:
- make simulation_name
-
-[> Tests :
- A synthetisable BIST is provided and can be controlled with ./test/bist.py
- By using Miscope and the provided ./test/test_link.py example you are able to
- visualize the internal logic of the design and even inject the captured data in
- the HDD model!
-
-[> License
-----------------------
-LiteSATA is released under the very permissive two-clause BSD license. Under the
-terms of this license, you are authorized to use Migen for closed-source
-proprietary designs.
-Even though we do not require you to do so, those things are awesome, so please
-do them if possible:
- - tell us that you are using LiteSATA
- - cite Migen in publications related to research it has helped
- - send us feedback and suggestions for improvements
- - send us bug reports when something goes wrong
- - send us the modifications and improvements you have done to LiteSATA.
-
-[> Support
-----------------------
-We love open-source hardware and like sharing our designs with others. We think
-that providing this core with a BSD license will enable its easy reuse and
-customization without the usual restrictions of commercial cores.
-
-We also offer design services and can:
-- provide you commercial support for our cores.
-- customize our cores to fit your needs and help you to integrate it in your design.
-- create custom designs for you and provide our already proven cores for free.
-- ...
-
-So feel free to contact us, we'd love to work with you!
+--------
+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
+---------------
+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)
+-----------------------------------------
+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
+-----------------------------------------
+
+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)
+-----------------------------------------
+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
+----------
E-mail: florent [AT] enjoy-digital.fr
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