David Shah, Eddie Hung, C. Wolf, Serge Bazanski, D. Gisselquist, Miodrag Milanovic
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Abstract
This paper introduces a fully free and open source software (FOSS) architecture-neutral FPGA framework comprising of Yosys for Verilog synthesis, and nextpnr for placement, routing, and bitstream generation. Currently, this flow supports two commercially available FPGA families, Lattice iCE40 (up to 8K logic elements) and Lattice ECP5 (up to 85K elements) and has been hardware-proven for custom-computing machines including a low-power neural-network accelerator and an OpenRISC system-on-chip capable of booting Linux. Both Yosys and nextpnr have been engineered in a highly flexible manner to support many of the features present in modern FPGAs by separating architecture-specific details from the common mapping algorithms.This framework is demonstrated on a longest-path case study to find an atypical single source-sink path occupying up to 45% of all on-chip wiring.