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* **pd**: Example and CI scripts to synthesis CVA6.
* **util**: General utility scriptware.
* **vendor**: Third-party IP maintained outside the repository.

## Verification
The verification environment for the CVA6 is _not_ in this Repository.

The verification environment for this core as well as other cores in the OpenHW Group CORE-V family is at the
[core-v-verif](https://github.com/openhwgroup/core-v-verif) repository on GitHub.

The Makefiles supported in the **core-v-verif** project automatically clone the appropriate version of the **CVA6** RTL sources.
* **verif**: Verification environment for the CVA6. The verification files shared with other cores are in the [core-v-verif](https://github.com/openhwgroup/core-v-verif) repository on GitHub. core-v-verif is defined as a cva6 submodule.

## Contributing
We highly appreciate community contributions.
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- [CVA6 User Documentation](#cva6-user-documentation)
- [Getting Started](#getting-started)
- [Checkout Repo](#checkout-repo)
- [Install Verilator Simulation Flow](#install-verilator-simulation-flow)
- [Build Model and Run Simulations](#build-model-and-run-simulations)
- [Build Model and Run Simulations with verif directory](#build-model-and-run-simulations-with-verif-directory)
- [Directories](#directories)
- [Prerequisites](#prerequisites)
- [Environent setup](#environent-setup)
- [Test execution](#test-execution)
- [Running User-Space Applications](#running-user-space-applications)
- [Physical Implementation](#physical-implementation)
- [ASIC Synthesis](#asic-synthesis)
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### Checkout Repo

Checkout the repository and initialize all submodules
```
```sh
git clone https://github.com/openhwgroup/cva6.git
cd cva6
git submodule update --init --recursive
```

### Install Verilator Simulation Flow
### Build Model and Run Simulations with verif directory

1. Setup install directory `RISCV` environment variable i.e. `export RISCV=/YOUR/TOOLCHAIN/INSTALLATION/DIRECTORY`
2. Run `./ci/setup.sh` to install all required tools (i.e. verilator, device-tree-compiler, riscv64-unknown-elf-*, ..)
#### verif Directories
- **bsp**: board support package for test-programs compiled/assembled/linked for the CVA6.
This BSP is used by both `core` testbench and `uvmt_cva6` UVM verification environment.
- **regress**: scripts to install tools, test suites, CVA6 code and to execute tests
- **sim**: simulation environment (e.g. riscv-dv)
- **tb**: testbench module instancing the core
- **tests**: source of test cases and test lists

You can install verilator from source using `./ci/install-verilator.sh` or by manually installing `verilator >= 4.002`
Note: There is currently a known issue with version 4.106 and 4.108. 4.106 does not compile and 4.108 hangs after a
couple of cycles simulation time.)
There are README files in each directory with additional information.

#### Prerequisites
To execute tests on CVA6 core, you need a RISC-V toolchain.

### Build Model and Run Simulations
Be aware that only gcc 11.1.0 or newer are supported in core-v-verif repository.
To build and install riscv gcc compiler in local, you can use the following commands :

#### Build default model
Build the Verilator model of CVA6 by using the Makefile:
```
make verilate
```sh
git clone https://github.com/riscv-collab/riscv-gnu-toolchain
cd riscv-gnu-toolchain
git clone https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc -b releases/gcc-13 gcc-13
./configure –prefix:/path/to/installation/directory --with-multilib-generator="rv32e-ilp32e--;rv32i-ilp32--;rv32im-ilp32--;rv32iac-ilp32--;rv32imac-ilp32--;rv32imafc-ilp32f--;rv32imafdc-ilp32d--;rv64i-lp64--;rv64ic-lp64--;rv64iac-lp64--;rv64imac-lp64--;rv64imafdc-lp64d--;rv64im-lp64--;" --with-gcc-src=`pwd`/gcc-13
make –j32
```

#### Build model with VCD support
To build the verilator model with support for vcd files:
- Install Verilator from source (tested on v4.110):
- https://verilator.org/guide/latest/install.html#run-in-place-from-verilator-root
- You can use the [run-in-place feature](https://verilator.org/guide/latest/install.html#run-in-place-from-verilator-root). No need to install the software. Please note that Makefile needs a C++ file from Verilator sources.
- Set `VERILATOR_ROOT` to the repository root (for instance `export VERILATOR_ROOT=/opt/<verilator_repo>`).
These commands will install the riscv gcc 13.1.0 compiler which is the latest version.
Once running the previous commands, your environment must be updated with :

You can finally generate the model:
```
make verilate DEBUG=1 TRACE_FAST=1
```sh
export RISCV=/path/to/installation/directory
export RISCV_PREFIX=$RISCV/bin/riscv-none-
export RISCV_GCC=$RISCV_PREFIXgcc
export CV_SW_PREFIX=riscv-none-elf-
```

#### Run simulations
This will create a C++ model of the core including a SystemVerilog wrapper and link it against a C++ testbench (in the `tb` subfolder). The binary can be found in the `work-ver` and accepts a RISC-V ELF binary as an argument, e.g.:
This 4 variables will ensure you use correctly the new gcc compiler you have just installed.
You will now be able to run the test scripts.

```
work-ver/Variane_testharness rv64um-v-divuw
```
#### Environent setup

To run simulation, several tools and repositories are needed:
- Gcc as compiler,
- Spike as instruction set simulator,
- Verilator as simulator (if used as simulator to simulate),
- [riscv-dv](https://github.com/google/riscv-dv) as simulation environment.

**Note:** If you want to generate the VCD for the same software (`-v` to specify the VCD filename):
```bash
work-ver/Variane_testharness -v output.vcd rv64um-v-divuw
If you would like to use a precompiled Verilator, please setup the path to the installation directory
```sh
export VERILATOR_INSTALL_DIR=/path/to/installation/directory
```

The Verilator testbench makes use of the `riscv-fesvr`. This means that you can use the `riscv-tests` repository as well as `riscv-pk` out-of-the-box. As a general rule of thumb the Verilator model will behave like Spike (exception for being orders of magnitudes slower).
The smoke_tests execution will end up the installation by installing Verilator, Spike, tests from regression suites as arch-test, riscv-dv. Then it runs the smoke_tests test.

Both, the Verilator model as well as the Questa simulation will produce trace logs. The Verilator trace is more basic but you can feed the log to `spike-dasm` to resolve instructions to mnemonics. Unfortunately value inspection is currently not possible for the Verilator trace file.
Three simulation types are supported:
- **veri-testharness**: verilator with corev_apu/testharness testbench,
- **vcs-testharness**: vcs with corev_apu/testharness testbench,
- **vcs-uvm**: vcs with UVM testbench.
To check the RTL cva6 behaviour, the RTL simulation trace is compared to spike trace. `DV_SIMULATORS` need to be setup to define which simulators are used.

```
spike-dasm < trace_hart_00.dasm > logfile.txt
```sh
export DV_SIMULATORS=veri-testharness,spike
sh verif/regress/smoke-tests.sh
```

To build, compile and run the CVA6 core-only in its example testbench using Verilator (known to work with V4.108):
```
$ cd core/example_tb
$ make veri_run
#### Test execution

Run one of the shell scripts:

```sh
# riscv-compliance (https://github.com/riscv/riscv-compliance) test suite:
sh verif/regress/dv-riscv-compliance.sh
# riscv-tests (https://github.com/riscv/riscv-tests) test suite:
sh verif/regress/dv-riscv-tests.sh
```
`make help` will print all supported targets.


### Running User-Space Applications

> :warning: **Warning**: this chapter needs to be updated. See Github issue https://github.com/openhwgroup/cva6/issues/1358.
It is possible to run user-space binaries on CVA6 with ([RISC-V Proxy Kernel and Boot Loader](https://github.com/riscv/riscv-pk)).
RISC-V PK can be installed by running: `./ci/install-riscvpk.sh`

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### ASIC Gate Simulation with `core-v-verif` repository

```
> :warning: **Warning**: this chapter needs to be updated. See Github issue https://github.com/openhwgroup/cva6/issues/1358.
```sh
export DV_SIMULATORS=veri-testharness,spike
cva6/regress/smoke-tests.sh
make -C core-v-cores/cva6/pd/synth cva6_synth FOUNDRY_PATH=/your/techno/basepath/ TECH_NAME=yourTechnoName TARGET_LIBRARY_FILES="yourLib1.db\ yourLib2.db" PERIOD=10 NAND2_AREA=650 TARGET=cv64a6_imafdc_sv39 ADDITIONAL_SEARCH_PATH="others/libs/paths/one\ others/libs/paths/two"
sed 's/module SyncSpRamBeNx64_1/module SyncSpRamBeNx64_2/' core-v-cores/cva6/pd/synth/ariane_synth.v > core-v-cores/cva6/pd/synth/ariane_synth_modified.v
make -C pd/synth cva6_synth FOUNDRY_PATH=/your/techno/basepath/ TECH_NAME=yourTechnoName TARGET_LIBRARY_FILES="yourLib1.db\ yourLib2.db" PERIOD=10 NAND2_AREA=650 TARGET=cv64a6_imafdc_sv39 ADDITIONAL_SEARCH_PATH="others/libs/paths/one\ others/libs/paths/two"
sed 's/module SyncSpRamBeNx64_1/module SyncSpRamBeNx64_2/' pd/synth/ariane_synth.v > pd/synth/ariane_synth_modified.v
cd cva6/sim
make vcs_clean
python3 cva6.py --testlist=../tests/testlist_riscv-tests-cv64a6_imafdc_sv39-p.yaml --test rv64ui-p-ld --iss_yaml cva6.yaml --target cv64a6_imafdc_sv39 --iss=spike,vcs-core-gate $DV_OPTS
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