[libre-riscv-dev] 130nm for the hackers : finally a reality ?

[Staf Verhaegen]

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton schreef op vr 03-07-2020 om 13:55 [+0100]:
> in *theory* then it would be possible to connect up the peripheralsdirectly and bypass parts of litex.  however looking at quite how muchlitex actually does:https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex/blob/master/litex/soc/integration/soc.py
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> that's what would be need to be rewritten - replaced - with somethingthat links up all the peripherals (in nmigen). and that's a _lot_ ofwork.

Nono, one would still use soc.py as it is just add a platform that spits out a verilog file of the whole soc top and not call the FPGA tool chain for synthesis and P&R.

This top verilog would then be used through Instance in nmigen and combined with IO and go through Coriolis flow.

greets,
Staf.