Quickstart

Prerequisites

  • ctags

  • bison

  • flex

  • gcc 5.x

  • cmake 3.9 (minimum version)

  • time

  • cairo

  • gawk

  • xdot

  • tcl-dev

  • graphviz

  • pkg-config

  • python3

  • libffi-dev

  • libreadline-dev

  • libboost-system-dev

  • libboost-python-dev

  • libboost-filesystem-dev

  • zlib1g-dev

Building

To build the VTR flow with the Yosys front-end you may use the VTR Makefile wrapper, by calling the make CMAKE_PARAMS="-DWITH_YOSYS=ON" command in the $VTR_ROOT directory. The compile flag -DWITH_YOSYS=ON should be passed to the CMake parameters to enable the Yosys compilation process.

Note

Compiling the VTR flow with the -DYOSYS_SV_UHDM_PLUGIN=ON flag is required to build and install Yosys SystemVerilog and UHDM plugins. Using this compile flag, the Yosys-F4PGA-Plugins and Surelog repositories are cloned in the $VTR_ROOT/libs/EXTERNAL directory and then will be compiled and added as external plugins to the Yosys front-end.

Note

Yosys uses Makefile as its build system. Since CMake provides portable, cross-platform build systems with many useful features, we provide a CMake wrapper to successfully embeds the Yosys library into the VTR flow.

Basic Usage

To run the VTR flow with the Yosys front-end, you would need to run the run_vtr_flow.py script with the start stage specified as Yosys.

./run_vtr_flow `PATH_TO_VERILOG_FILE.v` `PATH_TO_ARCH_FILE.xml` -start yosys

Note

Please see Run VTR Flow for advanced usage of the Yosys front-end with external plugins.