baeeq / nyuziprocessor

GPGPU processor architecture

Nyuzi Processor

Nyuzi is an experimental multicore GPGPU processor. It supports vector floating point, hardware multithreading, virtual memory, and cache coherence. The SystemVerilog-based hardware implementation is synthesizable and runs on FPGA. This project also includes an LLVM-based C++ toolchain.

Documentation: https://github.com/jbush001/NyuziProcessor/wiki
Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/nyuzi-processor-dev
License: Apache 2.0

Getting Started

The following instructions explain how to set up the Nyuzi development environment. This includes an emulator and cycle-accurate hardware simulator, which allow hardware and software development without an FPGA.

Install Prerequisites

Linux (Ubuntu)

This requires Ubuntu 16 (Xenial Xeres) or later to get the proper package versions. It should work for other distributions, but you will probably need to change some package names. From a terminal, execute the following:

sudo apt-get -y install autoconf cmake make gcc g++ bison flex python \
    perl emacs openjdk-8-jdk swig zlib1g-dev python-dev libxml2-dev \
    libedit-dev libncurses5-dev libsdl2-dev gtkwave imagemagick

Emacs is used for verilog-mode AUTO macros. The makefile executes this operation in batch mode

MacOS

These instruction assume OSX Mavericks or later.

Open the AppStore application, search for XCode and install it. Install the command line compiler tools by opening Terminal and typing the following:

xcode-select --install

Install MacPorts (https://www.macports.org/install.php), and use it to install the remaining packages:

sudo port install cmake bison swig swig-python imagemagick libsdl2 curl emacs

You may optionally install GTKWave for analyzing waveform files.

Windows

I have not tested this on Windows. Many of the libraries are cross platform, so it should be possible to port it. But the easiest route is probably to run Linux under a virtual machine like VirtualBox.

Build (Linux & MacOS)

The following script will download and install the Nyuzi toolchain and Verilator Verilog simulator. Although some Linux package managers have Verilator, they have old versions. It will ask for your root password a few times to install stuff.

build/setup_tools.sh

Build everything else:

make

Run tests:

make test

_If you are on a Linux distribution that defaults to python3, you may run into build problems with the compiler. In tools/NyuziToolchain/tools/CMakeLists.txt, comment out the following line:

add_llvm_external_project(lldb)

Occasionally a change will require a new version of the compiler. To rebuild:

git submodule update
cd tools/NyuziToolchain/build
make
sudo make install

What next?

Sample applications are available in software/apps. You can run these in the emulator by typing 'make run' (some need 3rd party data files, details are in the READMEs in those directories).

For example, this will render a 3D model in the emulator:

cd software/apps/sceneview
make run

Running on FPGA

See instructions in hardware/fpga/de2-115/README.md