From 81cd6acd339876cf388b845d7e03d8b19128a497 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: alonamid Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 07:50:04 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] update README --- README.md | 16 ++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index bc261049..611e69de 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -4,19 +4,26 @@ ## Using Chipyard -To get started using Chipyard, see the documentation on the Chipyard documentation site: https://chipyard.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ +To get started using Chipyard, see the documentation on the Chipyard documentation site: https://chipyard.readthedocs.io/ ## What is Chipyard -Chipyard is an open source starter template for your custom Chisel project. +Chipyard is an open source framework for agile development of Chisel-based Systems-on-Chip. It will allow you to leverage the Chisel HDL, Rocket Chip SoC generator, and other [Berkeley][berkeley] projects to produce a [RISC-V][riscv] SoC with everything from MMIO-mapped peripherals to custom accelerators. -It contains processor cores ([Rocket][rocket-chip], [BOOM][boom]), accelerators ([Hwacha][hwacha]), FPGA simulation tools ([FireSim][firesim]), ASIC tools ([HAMMER][hammer]) and other tooling to help create a full featured SoC. +Chipyard contains processor cores ([Rocket][rocket-chip], [BOOM][boom]), accelerators ([Hwacha][hwacha]), memory systems, and additional peripherals and tooling to help create a full featured SoC. +Chipyard supports multiple conccurent flows of agile hardware development, including software RTL simulaiton, FPGA-accelerated simulation ([FireSim][firesim]), automated VLSI flows ([Hammer][hammer]), and software workload generation for bare-metal and Linux-based systems ([FireMarshal][firemarshal]). Chipyard is actively developed in the [Berkeley Architecture Research Group][ucb-bar] in the [Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department][eecs] at the [University of California, Berkeley][berkeley]. ## Resources -* Chipyard Website: ...TBD at a later date... * Chipyard Documentation: https://chipyard.readthedocs.io/ +* Chipyard Basics slides: + +## Need help? + +* Join the Chipyard Mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chipyard +* Post an issue on this repo + [hwacha]:http://hwacha.org [hammer]:https://github.com/ucb-bar/hammer @@ -27,3 +34,4 @@ Chipyard is actively developed in the [Berkeley Architecture Research Group][ucb [riscv]: https://riscv.org/ [rocket-chip]: https://github.com/freechipsproject/rocket-chip [boom]: https://github.com/ucb-bar/riscv-boom +[firemarshal]: https://github.com/firesim/FireMarshal/