EFCAD

This EFCAD tool flow combines a chain of academic tools for building partially reconfigurable modules on lightweight embedded platforms. The target platform is UltraZed with the latest 16nm UltraScale+ FPGAs tightly coupled with the 64-bit ARM CPUs in the same die of the Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC device.

Components

• Verilog synthesis by Yosys (https://github.com/YosysHQ/yosys)
• Placement and routing by nextpnr (https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnr)
• Architectural model generated initially by Xilinx Vivado tool and extracted by GoAhead
• Bitstream generation by BitMan (https://github.com/khoapham/bitman)
• OS Shell hosting the partially reconfigurable modules by ZUCL (https://github.com/zuclfpl/zucl_fsp)

Acknowledgements

This is a part of our (Khoa Dang Pham and Malte Vesper) PhD projects in the University of Manchester, UK. We would like to thank Xilinx University Program for software and board donations.

Contacts

Any question, please send a message to Khoa Pham at khoa.pham@manchester.ac.uk