Chisel Installation

This chapter is an installation guide for Chisel (Constructing Hardware In a Scala Embedded Language) and is intended to prepare your system for subsequent tutorials. Chisel is a hardware construction language embedded in the high-level programming language Scala.

Development Tool Installation

The chisel tutorials should be able to be run on a variety of modern systems.
For the most update instructions on preparing your machine for Chisel see [Chisel Installation Preparation](https://github.com/ucb-bar/chisel3/wiki/Installation Preparation)

Setting Up the Tutorial

In subsequent tutorials, you will be using the files distributed in the chisel-tutorial repository. To obtain these tutorials files, \verb+cd+ to the directory = \verb+$DIR+ where you want to place the Chisel tutorial and type:

export DIR=~/chisel-workspace
mkdir -p $DIR
cd $DIR
git clone https://github.com/ucb-bar/chisel-tutorial.git
cd chisel-tutorial

You will now be in your copy of the Chisel Tutorial repository will then be in $DIR/chisel-tutorial.
Define this as a variable in your bash environment named \verb+$TUT_DIR+.

This is the Chisel tutorial directory structure you should see, which is explained more in the next tutorial:

chisel-tutorial

• build.sbt # project description
• doc/
• src/
  • main/
    • scala/
      • examples/
        • More advanced example circuits are found here
      • problems/
        • A series of problem circuits to be completed by the user
      • solutions/ # solutions to problems
        • Solutions to the problems circuits
  • test/
    • resources/
      • Resources required by some of the tests
    • scala/
      • examples/
        • Test harnesses for the example circuits
      • problems/
        • Test harnesses for the problem circuits
      • solutions/
        • Test harnesses for the solution circuits
      • util/
        • TutorialRunner.scala

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