A tiny Open POWER ISA softcore written in VHDL 2008

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README.md

Microwatt

A tiny Open POWER ISA softcore written in VHDL 2008. It aims to be simple and easy to understand.

Simulation

Build micropython. If you aren't building on a ppc64le box you will need a cross compiler. If it isn't available on your distro grab the powerpc64le-power8 toolchain from https://toolchains.bootlin.com

git clone https://github.com/mikey/micropython
cd micropython
git checkout powerpc
cd ports/powerpc
make -j$(nproc)
cd ../../../

Microwatt uses ghdl for simulation. Either install this from your distro or build it. Next build microwatt:

git clone https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt
cd microwatt
make

Link in the micropython image:

ln -s ../micropython/ports/powerpc/build/firmware.bin simple_ram_behavioural.bin

Now run microwatt, sending debug output to /dev/null:

./core_tb > /dev/null

Testing

A simple test suite containing random execution test cases and a couple of micropython test cases can be run with:

make -j$(nproc) check

Issues

This is functional, but very simple. We still have quite a lot to do:

Need to implement a simple non pipelined divide
There are a few instructions still to be implemented
Need to add caches and bypassing (in progress)
Need to add supervisor state (in progress)