Building RISC-V Atom

Clone the repository

$ git clone https://github.com/saursin/riscv-atom.git
$ cd riscv-atom     # switch to riscv-atom directory

Note

All the commands are executed from the root directory unless explicitly mentioned. We’ll refer to this root directory as RVATOM.

Edit Config.mk

Edit Config.mk file and provide paths appropriately

RISC-V Atom environment variables

RVATOM environment variable must point to root of riscv-atom directory for the tools & scripts to work properly.
RVATOM_LIB environment variable must point to the RVATOM/sw/lib folder. This variable is used by the compile scripts to locate libcatom.

For convenience, RVATOM/sourceme script is provided that you can source everytime you work with the project. This can be done as follows:

$ source sourceme

With this method, everytime you open a new terminal, you have to source the sourceme file. You can optionally append the aforementioned to your .bashrc to source it automatically everytime you open a new terminl.

$ echo "source <rvatom-path>/sourceme" >> ~/.bashrc

In the above command replace rvatom-path with the path to your RISC-V atom directory.

Building the Simulator

Let’s build AtomSim simulator for atombones target.

$ make soctarget=atombones

This will create RVATOM/sim/build and RVATOM/sim/run directories for Atomsim build files and runtime files respectively. You can find the Atomsim executable in the former directory.

Assuming you’ve sourced the RVATOM/sourceme file, try the following command to verify the build.

$ atomsim --help
AtomSim v_._
Interactive RTL Simulator for Atom based systems [ atombones ]
Usage:
  atomsim [OPTION...] input
...