Documentation
A draft version of the specification is available at https://ftp.libre-soc.org/power-spec-draft.pdf
Codebase Structure
The SOC is partitioned into four repositories. The subrepositories are intended as general purpose standalone projects useful outside of LibreSOC. For example, the IEE754 FPU repository is a general purpose IEEE754 toolkit for the construction of FSMs and arbitrary length pipelines.
| Git Repo | Online docs | Description | Pypi |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOC | Libre-SOC | Main OpenPOWER Hybrid CPU-GPU | TBD |
| FPU | ieee754fpu | Equivalent to hardfloat-3 | libresoc-ieee754fpu |
| nmutil | nmutil | Equivalent to Chisel3.util | libresoc-nmutil |
| OpenPOWER ISA | OpenPOWER ISA | Simulator, ISA spec compiler, co-simulation infrastructure | libresoc-openpower-isa |
Also see SOC Architecture
Installing the Codebase
Installation is much easier when using the install scripts. A separate script also helps install dependencies and a third can be used to set up a debootstrap chroot. The chroot is useful to ensure stability and repeatable builds: no errors or issues introduced by libraries being wrong versions. Also relevant is the gdb gcc build.
pip3 install virtualenv requests
mkdir ~/.virtualenvs && cd ~/.virtualenvs
python3 -m venv libresoc
source ~/.virtualenvs/libresoc/bin/activate
cd ~; mkdir libresoc; cd libresoc
git clone https://git.libre-soc.org/git/nmutil.git
git clone https://git.libre-soc.org/git/openpower-isa.git
git clone https://git.libre-soc.org/git/c4m-jtag.git
git clone https://git.libre-soc.org/git/ieee754fpu.git
git clone https://git.libre-soc.org/git/soc.git
cd nmutil; make develop; cd ..
cd openpower-isa; make develop pywriter svanalysis pyfnwriter; cd ..
cd c4m-jtag; make develop; cd ..
cd ieee754fpu; make develop; cd ..
cd soc; make gitupdate; make develop; cd ..