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2020/07/16

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Bertl_oO
off to bed now ... have a good one everyone!
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se6ast1an
good morning
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BAndiT1983
hi
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Bertl
morning folks!
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se6ast1an
good day!
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Bertl
off for now ... bbl
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Bertl
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mithro
https://github.com/antmicro/sdi-mipi-bridge
17:05
mithro
Oh, oh! If you are rewriting the apertus gateware in nmigen then we should certainly chat!
17:11
Bertl_oO
definitely!
17:12
Bertl_oO
felix_: look, somebody implemented SDI :)
17:47
felix_
don't see any fpga design code in there though
17:51
Bertl_oO
maybe mithro knows more ...
18:07
mithro
Bertl_oO: Sadly, no still uses closed source SDI cores
18:07
Bertl_oO
that's a pity
18:12
mithro
Bertl_oO: Still working on solving that problem
18:20
felix_
i've been quite busy with my new job at AMD working on coreboot and didn't get around to continue working on photonsdi yet :(
18:27
mithro
Bertl_oO: We are getting a lot of zynq support into the open tools
18:28
mithro
@Bertl_oO: And things like partial reconfigurable regions which let you use part of the design on Vivado and part in the open tools
18:29
felix_
that sounds awesome
18:30
Bertl_oO
mithro: so do the open tools now support the zynq 7020 completely?
18:30
Bertl_oO
(last time I checked not even the fuzzers worked as expected)
18:30
mithro
Bertl_oO: Depends what you mean my "completely"?
18:31
Bertl_oO
well, AXI, SERDES, delays, etc
18:31
mithro
Bertl_oO: https://github.com/SymbiFlow/symbiflow-arch-defs/pull/1506
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mithro
[Merged] Zynq 7020 support #1506
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Bertl_oO
yay! not even a month ago \o/
18:32
mithro
Bertl_oO: DSP / GTPs still need to be decoded -- but the PR flow enables you to keep parts in Vivado and incrementally move more and more into the open source tools
18:33
mumptai
wonders if that finally makes the zynq self-synthesizing
18:33
Bertl_oO
mithro: parts in vivado? how does that work?
18:34
mithro
mumptai: In theory -- in practice it needs a lot of work
18:34
mithro
Bertl_oO: We can "stitch" together bitstreams from multiple sources
18:34
Bertl_oO
does that support relocation as well?
18:34
Bertl_oO
or how do I do that with e.g. DSPs?
18:35
Bertl_oO
(we do a lot of stuff in DSPs :)
18:36
mumptai
mithro, nice :-)
18:36
mithro
Need someone to do -- https://github.com/SymbiFlow/symbiflow-examples/issues/26
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mithro
Bertl_oO: for the DSP stuff, we probably need to make that better
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mithro
Bertl_oO: you can also use Yosys --> Vivado
18:38
Bertl_oO
does yosys do VHDL now?
18:39
mithro
https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex/pull/551 -- Add Symbiflow toolchain support for Xilinx 7-series #551
18:39
Bertl_oO
ah yes, there seems to be a ghdl plugin ... but experimental
18:39
mithro
Bertl_oO: The j-core and microwatt people are using it pretty heavily it appears
18:40
Bertl_oO
definitely have to check that out
18:41
mumptai
i don't understand why the fsbl config has to be fuzzed, is the documentation so bad? or some legal reason?
18:42
mumptai
there is a lot of stuff to be configured, but most should be described in the reference? also everybody just uses the ps-init from the vivado projects
18:42
Bertl_oO
mithro: so what's the interface between yosys and vivado?
18:43
mithro
EDIF
18:43
Bertl_oO
but pre routing/placement?
18:45
mithro
Yes
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mithro
http://j.mp/symbiflow-status-doc
18:47
Bertl_oO
so that is probably not a big advantage then
18:47
Bertl_oO
as synthesis is pretty fast in vivado
18:48
Bertl_oO
anyway, good to know that there is progress
19:15
mithro
Bertl_oO: getting your design goes into Yosys is the first step to using the open source toolchain
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mithro
Also it lets you compare the open source PnR verse vivado
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se6ast1an
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se6ast1an
good night
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