The FuseSoC build system, dependency manager and fpga integration platform allows for easy creation of OpenRISC systems. If is featured in our Quick Start with Docker Images as our main fpga development platform. For in depth documentation see:
- FuseSoC Manual - Full documentation.
- olofk/fusesoc - The github project
Installing FuseSoC
FuseSoC is a python program and can be installed using pip. The easiest way to get started is simplly:
pip3 install --upgrade --user fusesoc
Available SoCs
In our tutorials we will mainly use the mor1kx-generic fusesoc SoC but there are a few more out there. Also available are:
- stffrdhrn/mor1kx-generic - A generic SoC that can be used as a starting point. It supports both mor1kx and marocchino CPU cores with both iverilog and verilator simulation backends.
- olofk/de0_nano - An SoC for the Terasic De0 Nano FPGA development board.
- stffrdhrn/de0_nano-multicore - A De0 Nano SoC supporting multiple mor1kx cores used to test SMP Linux.
- orpsoc-cores - There are also several SoC’s that have not yet been converted from the orpsoc-cores to fusesoc stand alone cores structure. These include support for de1, de2 and atlys FPGA boards.
If you have developed fusesoc support for a board not mentioned here please mail the OpenRISC mailing list or create a PR for this tutorial and we can add it here.