- All RFNoC capable targets now require rfnoc_image_builder to be built
- `make help` is updated for all targets to provide more useful and
up-to-date information
- The FPGA manual is also updated
- All checked-in build artifacts are now removed from git
- axi_ram_fifo.yml is updated to provide include path information
(required for building N3xx BIST images, which use this)
Original-commit: 28b994406d4c9547b1e2add62781b6a8162fdb74
Most important effect of this change: rfnoc_image_builder is now
required to build bitfiles, 'make' alone won't suffice any longer!
This is a huge changeset to the image builder that combines multiple new
features:
- There no longer is a separate edge file for the static router. The
static routes are generated as a Verilog parameter directly into the
rfnoc_core_kernel (which is also modified).
- image_builder.py is split up into several smaller files. Code is moved
into yaml_utils.py, and the new files grc.py, builder_config.py
- Generic module support is added. Aside from noc blocks and stream
endpoints, we can now instantiate arbitrary modules (they also require
a YAML description file).
- To enable such modules, resets are now also tracked the same way that
clock domains are.
- The ImageBuilderConfig config object now more closes matches the
original YAML file. The attributes 'clk_domain_con' and 'block_con' are
removed. Instead, the attributes 'connections' and 'clk_domains' are
sanitized and amended with extra annotations. The templates are
updated to reflect this change.
- IO ports can now carry parameters, e.g., to have variable wire widths
based on the configuration.
- Many Pylint warnings were resolved.
- Add inheritance support for image core YAML files.
This allows image core files to (recursively) inherit from other image
core files. To do so, simply put an 'inherit' entry at the top of the
file:
```yaml
inherit: 'x410_radio_base.yml'
```
- The inheritance feature is used as part of the image core files.
- Image core and DTS files are now generated as a build artefact into
the build directory. This requires the usage of rfnoc_image_builder to
build images. As a consequence, it is no longer required to check in
image core Verilog files.
- As another consequence, rfnoc_image_builder is required to build
bitfiles!
- Image flavours are no longer defined through Makefiles, but purely
from the image core YAML files.
- Remove all image core YAML files that do not generate a shipping
image. Because of the inheritance feature and the requirement to use
the image builder, it is trivial to add new YAML files.
- Add support for transport adapters through the YAML files. Before,
transport adapters were inferred from the make target (e.g.,
X410_X4_200 would have four 10GbE links based on the 'X4' substring).
Now, transport adapters are defined via the image core YAML.
- This feature is currently only used (or can be used) by the X4xx
series. Older devices may or may not be ported to allow custom
transport adapters in the future.
- Add parameters to the BSP YAMLs and the devices itself. This allows
setting global parameters in the image core files. For example, the
X4x0 devices use this to decide if they instantiate DRAM channels.
- DTS includes and constraint files can now be requested by
blocks/transport adapter through their YAML files. They do no longer
need to be listed in the Makefile.
- Support for secure image cores. These are image cores that allow
incorporating RFNoC blocks that require license keys and thus can't
live in an open-source environment. This solution adds the option for
secure image cores without touching the open source feature set.
- Add --reuse option to allow manual editing of generated artefacts
- Allow IO signatures from any module: until now IO signatures had to be
defined in a single file (io_signatures). This file will persist. In
addition each module can add its own IO signature as with the same
format the core IO signatures placed under the top level key
`io_signatures`. IO signatures are still maintained in a global
dictionary. The consequence is that they can be shared among
independent modules as well as they have to have a globally unique
name. The image builder will warn about detected name clashes for the
signatures.
- As a consequence, some less commonly used IO signatures were moved to
their corresponding module YAML files.
Co-authored-by: Wade Fife <wade.fife@ni.com>
Co-authored-by: Lars Amsel <lars.amsel@ni.com>
Original-commit: a98ce2621e2a2dc25535fc700b49bfcb00b8eb59
FPGA:
- Split up MB registers that control daughterboard specific settings so
that daughterboards 0 and 1 could have different setings, in
preparation for future devices that require different settings.
This requires a compat number bump to 8.0.
- Add registers for additional RFDC information, including the
block/tile mapping of the individual channels, and information about
resampling capabilities
- Identify sections of code that would be specific to X410/ZBX and move
them to their own headers, so it's trivial to add device-specific
sections of code instead for other devices in the future.
- This includes constraints for clocks and I/O pins.
- Remove ability to do timed ctrlport transactions to the MB CPLD, this
was unused and possibly broken.
- Move daughterboard-specific code into its own code location
(dboards/zbx)
- Move X410-specific register documentation to its own location
(doc/X410)
- Refactor Makefiles to split out X410/ZBX specific components and allow
switching between device types
- Add 512-bit AXI interconnects
- Make number of timekeepers configurable (X410 keeps the single
timekeeper)
MPM:
- Required compat is bumped to 8.0
- Now supports new registers for detecting DSP capabilities and
multi-rate settings for the daughterboards
- Adds MMCM controls (currently unused)
Co-authored-by: Wade Fife <wade.fife@ni.com>
Co-authored-by: Ryan Marlow <ryan@lmarlow.com>
Co-authored-by: Martin Braun <martin.braun@ettus.com>
Co-authored-by: Humberto Jimenez <humberto.jimenez@ni.com>
Original-commit: c1d268917ea65dd9c5a42366014cb96d3c025223
This adds the ability to do IP generation and FPGA builds using the
--jobs (-j) option with Make. For example, rather than generating each
IP one after another, you can generate up to N at a time using N Vivado
instances. This greatly reduces the IP generation time. Similarly,
parallel jobs can be used to easily build different FPGA variants
simultaneously.
Because FPGA builds can consume a lot of memory, care must be taken to
ensure that the number of jobs is not too high for the amount of memory
available.
New IP make targets were added for each USRP so that IP can be built
separately from the FPGA. The IP targets are now a dependency on each
FPGA target.
For example, you can generate the IP for X310 using 4 parallel jobs
using the following command:
make -j4 X310_IP
Or, build two X310 bitstreams simultaneously:
make -j2 X310_XG X310_HG
Original-commit: 4b03e237a96ee277eefff257d65b08708c38662c
Previously, when running rfnoc_image_builder, the rfnoc_image_core.vh
file in the main x400 directory was being used instead of the one
generated by rfnoc_image_builder.
Original-commit: 121b6c560cacfb5deacdee664dd1f32cafef7b3d
Friedrich Wenisch