SCR1 is an open-source RISC-V compatible MCU core, designed by Syntacore.

Key features

• RV32I|E[MC] ISA
• Machine privilege mode
• 2 to 4 stage pipeline
• 32-bit AXI4/AHB-Lite external interface
• Integrated IRQ controller and advanced debug
• Optimized for area and power
• Written in SystemVerilog
• Features a number of configurable parameters

For more information, see docs/scr1_eas.pdf.

Repository contents

Folder	Description
docs	SCR1 documentation
src	SCR1 RTL source and testbench files
sim	Tests and scripts for simulation
sim/tests/common	Common source files for tests
sim/tests/riscv_isa	Common source files for RISC-V ISA tests
sim/tests/riscv_compliance	Common source files for RISC-V Compliance tests
sim/tests/benchmarks/dhrystone21	Dhrystone 2.1 source files
sim/tests/benchmarks/coremark	Coremark platform specific source files
sim/tests/vectored_isr_sample	Simple test example for vectored interrupt mode
sim/verilator_wrap	Wrappers for Verilator simulation

Quick start guide

Prerequisites

RISC-V GCC toolchain is required to compile the software. You can use pre-built binaries or build the toolchain from scratch.

Using pre-built binary tools

Pre-built RISC-V GCC toolchain and OpenOCD binaries are available to download from http://syntacore.com/page/products/sw-tools. Download the archive (.tar.gz for Linux, .zip for Windows) for your platform, extract the archive to your preferred directory <GCC_INSTALL_PATH> and update the PATH environment variable as described in Set environment variables section.

Building tools from source

You can build the RISC-V toolchain from sources.

Build procedure is verified at the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS distributions.

sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libmpc-dev libmpfr-dev libgmp-dev gawk bison flex texinfo libtool make g++ pkg-config libexpat1-dev zlib1g-dev
git clone https://github.com/riscv/riscv-gnu-toolchain.git
cd riscv-gnu-toolchain
git checkout a71fc539850f8dacf232fc580743b946c376014b
git submodule update --init --recursive
./configure --prefix=<GCC_INSTALL_PATH> --enable-multilib
make

More detailed instructions on how to prepare and build the toolchain can be found in https://github.com/riscv/riscv-tools/blob/master/README.md.

Set environment variables

Add the <GCC_INSTALL_PATH>/bin folder to the PATH environment variable:

export PATH=$PATH:<GCC_INSTALL_PATH>/bin

Clone and prepare the RISC-V ISA tests

Clone RISC-V ISA tests to your preferred directory <RISCV_TESTS_PATH>

git clone https://github.com/riscv/riscv-tests
cd riscv-tests
git checkout a9433c4daa287fbe101025f2a079261a10149225

Set the $RISCV_TESTS environment variable accordingly:

export RISCV_TESTS=<RISCV_TESTS_PATH>

Clone RISC-V Compliance tests to your preferred directory <RISCV_COMPLIANCE_TESTS_PATH>

Clone RISC-V Compliance tests to your preferred directory <RISCV_COMPLIANCE_TESTS_PATH>

git clone https://github.com/riscv/riscv-compliance
cd riscv-compliance
git checkout 9273836251cc53069f9cc48543fa9c1417e98cb7

Set the $RISCV_COMPLIANCE_TESTS environment variable accordingly:

export RISCV_COMPLIANCE_TESTS=<RISCV_COMPLIANCE_TESTS_PATH>

Prepare Coremark benchmark sources

Download CoreMark from EEMBC's web site and extract the archive from
http://www.eembc.org/coremark/download.php, or clone from https://github.com/eembc/coremark

Copy the following files from into the `tests/benchmarks/coremark/src` directory in this repository:
- `core_main.c`
- `core_list_join.c`
- `coremark.h`
- `core_matrix.c`
- `core_state.c`
- `core_util.c`

Build RTL, compile and run tests

make run_<SIMULATOR> BUS=<AHB, AXI> ARCH=<I, IM, IMC, IC, EM, EMC, EC> IPIC=<0, 1> will build RTL and tests, then run all tests with default parameters.

Currently supported options:

• run_modelsim
• run_vcs
• run_ncsim
• run_verilator

Please note that RTL simulator executables should be in your PATH variable.

To run an arbitrary subset of tests, edit the tests target in the top Makefile, or the rv32_tests.inc in riscv_isa subfolder. After all the tests have finished, the results can be found in build/test_results.txt (default location).

• Test build and run parameters can be configured in the Makefile
• SCR1 core parameters can be configured in src/includes/scr1_arch_description.svh

Please make sure that architectural config selected for the SCR1 RTL matches the one used for tests compilation.

Contacts

scr1@syntacore.com