Mako templates for Verilog, now released

I cleaned up and published code I presented earlier this year on the use of Mako templates for Verilog.

Here is a link to the repository: https://bitbucket.org/ecote/vmako/overview

Update to SimpleMIPS to use elftools, improved tracing, and new instructions

In the spirit of the new year, I am publishing some code that I have laying around on my workstation.

SimpleMIPS is an existing Python-based instruction set simulator for MIPS.  I wrote some code to replace its roll-your-own ELF parser with code from elftools library, to add simple for instruction trace generation, and add support for handful of new instructions.

Here is a link to my the repository : https://bitbucket.org/ecote/miss/overview

Registered for RISC-V Workshop

I registered for the first RISC-V Workshop and Bootcamp that is being put together by the ASPIRE lab at UC-Berkeley.

If I have been quiet on the blog, it is because I have been exploring the RISC-V architecture and the Chisel hardware construction language.

I agreed to present a poster. Stay tuned :)

Inforce 6410 and vs-android

This doesn't technically qualify as a personal project, but I acquired a Inforce 6410 single board computer through training that was offered at work.  The training was for writing OpenGL-ES graphic programs on a Snapdragon.  The board is build around a APQ 8064 SoC running Android.

The development platform introduced was Visual Studio and vs-android.  I was surprised by how easy vs-android made it to get C++ OpenGL-ES code running on an Android device.  Sure, there was a setup and learning curve, but at the end there was no struggle with the Android SDK or NDK.

Start to end, no more than a few hours work.  Fun!

Wednesday Night Hack #8 - Mako for Verilog, Moving on ...

Using Mako templates language for hardware design was an interesting experiment.  It was definitely a fun hack.  I am turning my attention away from this pet project to a new tool developed
by engineers at Berkeley: Chisel.

Here is a link to find out more: https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/