tienld2/chiptools

ChipTools is a utility to automate FPGA build and verification

ChipTools is a utility to automate FPGA build and verification

What can it do?

ChipTools aims to simplify the process of building and testing FPGA designs by providing a consistent interface to vendor applications and automating simulation and synthesis flows.

Key features

• Seamlessly switch between vendor applications without modifying build scripts or project files.
• Enhance testbenches with Python based stimulus generation and checking.
• Automate test execution and reporting using the Python Unittest framework.
• Automatically check and archive build outputs.
• Preprocess and update files before synthesis to automate tasks such as updating version registers.
• Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 License.

Getting Started

  # Clone the ChipTools repository to your system
  $ git clone https://github.com/pabennett/chiptools.git
  
  # Install using the setup.py script provided in the root directory
  $ python setup.py install
  
  # Start the ChipTools command line interface
  $ chiptools

Refer to the documentation for examples on using ChipTools to simulate and build FPGA designs.

Supported Tools

The following tools are currently supported, support for additional tools will be added in the future.

Simulation Tools

• Modelsim (tested with 10.3)
• ISIM (tested with 14.7)
• GHDL (tested with 0.31)

Synthesis Tools

• Xilinx ISE (tested with 14.7)
• Quartus (tested with 13.1)
• Vivado (tested with 2015.4)