Requirements

Table of Content:

• Dependencies
  1. Pile of Cores
  2. The PicoBlaze-Library
  3. Open PicoBlaze Assembler
• Common Requirements
  1. Additional Requirements on Linux
  2. Additional Requirements on Windows
• Optional Tools 4. For Linux 5. For Windows

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Dependencies

The PicoBlaze-Examples depends on:

• The PoC-Library, a platform independent HDL library,
• The PicoBlaze-Library, a platform independent library of PicoBlaze devices, and
• the Open PicoBlaze Assembler, a free and freature rich assembler for the PicoBlaze processor.

All dependencies are available as GitHub repositories and can be downloaded via by git clone command. Alternatively, zip-files are offered by GitHub to download the latest master branches.

Pile of Cores (PoC)

The PoC-Library is used for it's common VHDL packages to extend VHDL's std and IEEE packages with addition enums, records and functions. The PicoBlaze-Library uses PoC's generic modules like FIFOs, synchronizers and arithmetic units to wrap them into PicoBlaze device or PicoBlaze accelerators. It also uses PoC's I/O modules like the I²C, OneWire or MDIO controller.

The PicoBlaze-Library (L_PicoBlaze)

TODO

Open PicoBlaze Assembler (opbasm)

The Open PicoBlaze Assembler is a free platform independent Assembler for the PicoBlaze processor. It offers several additional features compared to KCPSM6.exe.

Common Requirements:

• Synthesis tool chains:
  • Xilinx ISE 14.7 or
  • Xilinx Vivado 2014.x or
• Simulation tool chains:
  • Xilinx ISE Simulator 14.7 or
  • Xilinx Vivado Simulator 2014.x or
• Programming languages and runtimes:
  • Python 3 (≥ 3.4):
    • colorama
• Assembler tool chains:
  • KCPSM6.exe
  • Open PicoBlaze Assembler (opbasm)

Additional Requirements on Linux:

• m4 macro pre-processor
• Debian specific:
  • bash is configured as /bin/sh (read more)
    dpkg-reconfigure dash

Additional Requirements on Windows:

• PowerShell 4.0 (Windows Management Framework 4.0)
  • Allow local script execution (read more)
    PS> Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned
  • PowerShell Community Extensions 3.2 (pscx.codeplex.com)
• m4 macro pre-processor

Optional Tools:

For Linux:

• Generic Colouriser (grc) ≥1.9
  • Git repository on GitHub -> https://github.com/garabik/grc
  • *.deb package for Debian -> http://kassiopeia.juls.savba.sk/~garabik/software/grc/

For Windows:

• posh-git - PowerShell integration for Git
  Installing posh-git with PsGet package manager: Install-Module posh-git

See also

• Download
• Installation
• Change Log