cocotb
cocotb, a coroutine based cosimulation library for writing VHDL and Verilog testbenches in Python (by cocotb)
fusesoc
Package manager and build abstraction tool for FPGA/ASIC development (by olofk)
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| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
cocotb
Posts with mentions or reviews of cocotb.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-04.
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Designing a Low Latency 10G Ethernet Core
The use of cocotb and pyuvm for verification
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How is Python used in test automation in embedded systems?
For FPGA/HDL work, there's cocotb
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Introducing CoHDL
At the moment, it is not possible to directly simulate synthesizable contexts. In principle, I could add a simulator to CoHDL. As a Python implementation, it would be orders of magnitude slower than other solutions. Instead, I am using Cocotb to validate the generated VHDL and for the unit tests in the GitHub repository. There is also some very, very experimental support for formal verification, but it will take some time for that to become usable.
- Use cocotb to test and verify chip designs in Python
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Trying to learn and work with FPGAs
On the topic of simulation, you don't have to restrict yourself to using Verilog or VHDL to write your test benches. For example, Verilator lets you write them in C++, cocotb lets you use Python, and if you use SpinalHDL you will drive the underlying simulator using Scala.
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Help understanding how this makefile works?
I know it might be difficult without much context, but this makefile is called by a top level makefile. very confused if lines 35-74 do anything. They seem to be a mix of real makefile syntax and just straight up comments. what do these lines do?
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COBS protocol decoder progress
Learn more about this here: https://www.cocotb.org/
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AXI-Stream meme
Also consider cocotb, this thread has some compelling arguments. I'd say as a student, learning industry tools isn't necessarily the best thing you could spend your time on. Getting fast at design AND verification, where you can maintain flow state and run better microexperiments means you will understand more, faster.
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cocotb
Have you tried looking at the mixed language example?
- We're trying to sort this out with some of our engineers, so please humor - Do you prefer VHDL or Verilog?
fusesoc
Posts with mentions or reviews of fusesoc.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-28.
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fusesoc VS vextproj - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 28 Mar 2024
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Introduction to FPGAs
Check out https://github.com/olofk/fusesoc. It gives you a command line build flow that can drive Vivado (along with many other eda tools via edalize https://github.com/olofk/edalize) without having to touch the GUI (though you might want it for programming the board, though FuseSoC can do that too).
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CI/CD for FPGA builds
Check out FuseSoC: https://github.com/olofk/fusesoc it can run Vivado builds for you (as well as many other tools). It may be less work to get FuseSoC setup then work out a CLI Vivado batch flow from scratch.
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Besides misterFPGA what else can I play with on a DE10-nano?
Also, the FuseSOC and LiteX projects both support the DE10 nano, and can be used to roll your own custom SOCs with RISC-V or OpenRISC cores.
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Why isn't all verification work done in Python
Integration with the dependency and build tool I use (FuseSoc) is clumsy.
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Using Python with Vivado Projects
The "fusesoc" project may be of interest to you.
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Any recommendations for an RTL "standard library"?
FuseSoC is an RTL package manager. It will automatically download the latest versions of required components when you build. It also comes with a bunch of great options for components here:
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What should a modern IP library look like?
Have to correct this slightly: I just heard of my first HDL package manager in this thread. FuseSOC: https://github.com/olofk/fusesoc - Thanks u/gac_cag!
- Olof Kindgren on LinkedIn: We have a new world record! 6000 RISC-V cores in a single chip!
- Industry development process?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing cocotb and fusesoc you can also consider the following projects:
cocotbext-axi - AXI interface modules for Cocotb
litex - Build your hardware, easily!
cocotb-test - Unit testing for cocotb
edalize - An abstraction library for interfacing EDA tools
amaranth - A modern hardware definition language and toolchain based on Python
opentitan - OpenTitan: Open source silicon root of trust
chiselverify - A dynamic verification library for Chisel.
teroshdl-documenter-demo - This is an example of how TerosHDL can generate your documentation project from the command line. So you can integrate it in your CI workflow.
rocket-chip - Rocket Chip Generator
SpinalHDL - Scala based HDL
vcdvcd - Python Verilog value change dump (VCD) parser library + the nifty vcdcat VCD command line pretty printer.