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README.md

nextpnr -- a portable FPGA place and route tool

nextpnr aims to be a vendor neutral, timing driven, FOSS FPGA place and route tool.

Currently nextpnr supports:

  • Lattice iCE40 devices supported by Project IceStorm
  • (experimental) Lattice ECP5 devices supported by Project Trellis
  • (experimental) a “generic” back-end for user-defined architectures

We hope to see Xilinx 7 Series thanks to Project X-Ray and even more FPGA families supported in the future. We would love your help in developing this awesome new project!

Here is a screenshot of nextpnr for iCE40. Build instructions and getting started notes can be found below.

See also:

Prerequisites

The following packages need to be installed for building nextpnr, independent of the selected architecture:

  • CMake 3.3 or later
  • Modern C++11 compiler (clang-format required for development)
  • Qt5 or later (qt5-default for Ubuntu 16.04)
  • Python 3.5 or later, including development libraries (python3-dev for Ubuntu)
    • on Windows make sure to install same version as supported by vcpkg
  • Boost libraries (libboost-dev or libboost-all-dev for Ubuntu)
  • Latest git Yosys is required to synthesise the demo design
  • For building on Windows with MSVC, usage of vcpkg is advised for dependency installation.
    • For 32 bit builds: vcpkg install boost-filesystem boost-program-options boost-thread boost-python qt5-base
    • For 64 bit builds: vcpkg install boost-filesystem:x64-windows boost-program-options:x64-windows boost-thread:x64-windows boost-python:x64-windows qt5-base:x64-windows
  • For building on macOS, brew utility is needed.
    • Install all needed packages brew install cmake python boost boost-python3 qt5
    • Do not forget to add qt5 in path as well echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/qt/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

Getting started

nextpnr-ice40

To build the iCE40 version of nextpnr, install icestorm with chipdbs installed in /usr/local/share/icebox. Then build and install nextpnr-ice40 using the following commands:

cmake -DARCH=ice40 .
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install

A simple example that runs on the iCEstick dev board can be found in ice40/blinky.*. Usage example:

cd ice40
yosys -p 'synth_ice40 -top blinky -json blinky.json' blinky.v               # synthesize into blinky.json
nextpnr-ice40 --hx1k --json blinky.json --pcf blinky.pcf --asc blinky.asc   # run place and route
icepack blinky.asc blinky.bin                                               # generate binary bitstream file
iceprog blinky.bin                                                          # upload design to iCEstick

Running nextpnr in GUI mode:

nextpnr-ice40 --json blinky.json --pcf blinky.pcf --asc blinky.asc --gui

(Use the toolbar buttons or the Python command console to perform actions such as pack, place, route, and write output files.)

nextpnr-ecp5

For ECP5 support, you must download Project Trellis, then follow its instructions to download the latest database and build libtrellis.

cmake -DARCH=ecp5 -DTRELLIS_ROOT=/path/to/prjtrellis .
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install

  • For an ECP5 blinky on the 45k ULX3S board, first synthesise using yosys blinky.ys in ecp5/synth.

  • Then run ECP5 place-and route using ./nextpnr-ecp5 --json ecp5/synth/blinky.json --basecfg ecp5/synth/ulx3s_empty.config --textcfg ecp5/synth/ulx3s_out.config

  • Create a bitstream using ecppack ulx3s_out.config ulx3s.bit

  • Note that ulx3s_empty.config contains fixed/unknown bits to be copied to the output bitstream

  • More examples of the ECP5 flow for a range of boards can be found in the Project Trellis Examples.

  • Currently the ECP5 flow supports LUTs, flipflops and IO. IO must be instantiated using TRELLIS_IO primitives and constraints specified using LOC and IO_TYPE attributes on those instances, as is used in the examples.

nextpnr-generic

The generic target allows running placement and routing for arbitrary custom architectures.

cmake -DARCH=generic .
make -j$(nproc)
sudo make install

TBD: Getting started example for generic target.

Additional notes for building nextpnr

Use cmake -D options to specify which version of nextpnr you want to build.

Use -DARCH=... to set the architecture. It is semicolon separated list. Use cmake . -DARCH=all to build all supported architectures.

The following runs a debug build of the iCE40 architecture without GUI and without Python support and only HX1K support:

cmake -DARCH=ice40 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DBUILD_PYTHON=OFF -DBUILD_GUI=OFF -DICE40_HX1K_ONLY=1 .
make -j$(nproc)

To make static build relase for iCE40 architecture use the following:

cmake -DARCH=ice40 -DBUILD_PYTHON=OFF -DBUILD_GUI=OFF -DSTATIC_BUILD=ON .
make -j$(nproc)

Notes for developers

  • All code is formatted using clang-format according to the style rules in .clang-format (LLVM based with increased indent widths and brace wraps after classes).
  • To automatically format all source code, run make clangformat.
  • See the wiki for additional documentation on the architecture API.

Testing

  • To build test binaries as well, use -DBUILD_TESTS=ON and after make run make tests to run them, or you can run separate binaries.
  • To use code sanitizers use the cmake options:
    • -DSANITIZE_ADDRESS=ON
    • -DSANITIZE_MEMORY=ON -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=clang -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=clang++
    • -DSANITIZE_THREAD=ON
    • -DSANITIZE_UNDEFINED=ON
  • Running valgrind example valgrind --leak-check=yes --tool=memcheck ./nextpnr-ice40 --json ice40/blinky.json
  • Running tests with code coverage use -DBUILD_TESTS=ON -DCOVERAGE and after make run make ice40-coverage
  • After that open ice40-coverage/index.html in your browser to view the coverage report
  • Note that lcov is needed in order to generate reports

Links and references

Synthesis, simulation, and logic optimization

FPGA bitstream documentation (and tools) projects

Other FOSS FPGA place and route projects