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Add some initial FPGA synthesis instructions

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@linux.ibm.com>
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A tiny Open POWER ISA softcore written in VHDL 2008. It aims to be simple and easy
to understand.
## Simulation
## Simulation using ghdl
- Build micropython. If you aren't building on a ppc64le box you
will need a cross compiler. If it isn't available on your distro
@@ -39,6 +39,42 @@ ln -s ../micropython/ports/powerpc/build/firmware.bin simple_ram_behavioural.bin
./core_tb > /dev/null
```
## Synthesis on Xilinx FPGAs using Vivado
- Install Vivado (I'm using the free 2019.1 webpack edition).
- Setup Vivado paths:
```
source /opt/Xilinx/Vivado/2019.1/settings64.sh
```
- Install FuseSoC:
```
pip3 install --user -U fusesoc
```
- Create a working directory and point FuseSoC at microwatt:
```
mkdir microwatt-fusesoc
cd microwatt-fusesoc
fusesoc library add microwatt /path/to/microwatt/
```
- Build using FuseSoC. For hello world (Replace nexys_video with your FPGA board):
```
fusesoc run --target=nexys_video microwatt --memory_size=8192 --ram_init_file=/path/to/microwatt/fpga/hello_world.hex
```
- To build micropython (currently requires 1MB of BRAM eg an Artix-7 A200):
```
fusesoc run --target=nexys_video microwatt
```
## Testing
- A simple test suite containing random execution test cases and a couple of