Using a newer chipyard/firesim version?

[AnjelicaB]

I was just wondering if there's a particular reason that the readme said to use the Chipyard 1.9.1 version, instead of newer versions (eg 1.10 or 1.11). Additionally, if I want to run FireSim with Gemmini on a U280 board, I need the version of Firesim that is 1.17 +.

Could I generate a Gemmini accelerator using Chipyard 1.11 and run a simulation on Firesim 1.18 with Xilinx U280 board?

[jerryz123]

The README in this repo has not been updated in a while.

Generally, the versions of all the projects referenced by chipyard/main will work together, and will support recent features in chipyard/firesim.

[AnjelicaB]

I'm a still a little confused about the different chipyard/gemmini/firesim versions...If I run the steps:

cd generators/gemmini
git config remote.origin.fetch "+refs/heads/:refs/remotes/origin/"
git fetch && git checkout v0.7.1

with Chipyard 1.11.0, build-verilator fails with version conflicts. I'm using Chipyard 1.11.0 because it sets up Firesim 1.18.0, which is compatible with a U280 FPGA (since I don't have F1 instances).

I've skipped these steps completely and Verilator builds fine, but run-verilator fails with:

(/home/anjelica/chipyard/.conda-env) anjelica@genie05:~/chipyard/generators/gemmini$ ./scripts/run-verilator.sh template
./scripts/run-verilator.sh: line 91: ./simulator-chipyard-CustomGemminiSoCConfig: No such file or directory

I understand that the error is probably because I didn't follow the Gemmini installation script completely, but is there a way to work around this problem?

[shirohasuki]

@AnjelicaB I'm having the same problem, I think it's due to chipyard version upgrade (previously it was fine to run verilator scripts in chipyard 1.9.1). Did you solve the problem?

[AnjelicaB]

No unfortunately. The best I could do is to use Chipyard 1.11, and leave everything in there as is. I could build Gemmini software, I just couldn’t run it on Spike or Verilator

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[shirohasuki]

Thanks for the reply, I'm also experimenting with verilator in 1.9.1 and running firesim in 1.11 now.