Documenting the Xilinx 7-series bit-stream format.
This repository contains both tools and scripts which allow you to document the bit-stream format of Xilinx 7-series FPGAs.
More documentation can be found published on prjxray ReadTheDocs site - this includes;
Instructions were originally written for Ubuntu 16.04. Please let us know if you have information on other distributions.
Install Vivado 2017.2. If you did not install to /opt/Xilinx default, then set the environment variable XRAY_VIVADO_SETTINGS to point to the settings64.sh file of the installed vivado version, ie
export XRAY_VIVADO_SETTINGS=/opt/Xilinx/Vivado/2017.2/settings64.sh
Pull submodules:
git submodule update --init --recursive
Install CMake and build the C++ tools:
sudo apt-get install cmake # version 3.5.0 or later required,
# for Ubuntu Trusty pkg is called cmake3
mkdir build
pushd build
cmake ..
make
popd
(Option 1) - Install the Python environment locally
sudo apt-get install virtualenv python3-virtualenv python3-yaml
make env
(Option 2) - Install the Python environment globally
sudo apt-get install python3-yaml
sudo pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Always make sure to set the environment for the device you are working on before running any other commands:
source database/artix7/settings.sh
If you are a prjxray developer, skip this step. But, if you just want to use the Python API with a pre-generated database, just download a current stable version and skip the rest of the instructions:
# WARNING: causes git issues, overrides environment
./download-latest-db.sh
(Re-)creating the entire database (this will take a very long time!):
cd fuzzers
make -j$(nproc)
(Re-)creating parts of the database, for example LUT init bits:
cd fuzzers/010-lutinit
make -j$(nproc) run
Create HTML documentation:
cd htmlgen
python3 htmlgen.py
Tests are not built by default. Setting the PRJXRAY_BUILD_TESTING option to ON when running cmake will include them:
cmake -DPRJXRAY_BUILD_TESTING=ON ..
make
The default C++ build configuration is for releases (optimizations enabled, no debug info). A build configuration for debugging (no optimizations, debug info) can be chosen via the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE option:
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ..
make
The options to build tests and use a debug build configuration are independent to allow testing that optimizations do not cause bugs. The build configuration and build tests options may be combined to allow all permutations.
The documentation is done through a "black box" process were Vivado is asked to generate a large number of designs which then used to create bitstreams. The resulting bit streams are then cross correlated to discover what different bits do.
There are also "minitests" which are designs which can be viewed by a human in Vivado to better understand how to generate more useful designs.
Experiments are like "minitests" except are only useful for a short period of time. Files are committed here to allow people to see how we are trying to understand the bitstream.
When an experiment is finished with, it will be moved from this directory into the latest "prjxray-experiments-archive-XXXX" repository.
Fuzzers are the scripts which generate the large number of bitstream.
They are called "fuzzers" because they follow an approach similar to the idea of software testing through fuzzing.
Tools & libs are useful tools (and libraries) for converting the resulting bitstreams into various formats.
Binaries in the tools directory are considered more mature and stable then those in the utils directory and could be actively used in other projects.
Utils are various tools which are still highly experimental. These tools should only be used inside this repository.
Third party contains code not developed as part of Project X-Ray.
Running the all fuzzers in order will produce a database which documents the bitstream format in the database directory.
As running all these fuzzers can take significant time, Tim 'mithro' Ansell me@mith.ro has graciously agreed to maintain a copy of the database in the prjxray-db repository.
Please direct enquires to Tim if there are any issues with it.
Current the focus has been on the Artix-7 50T part. This structure is common between all footprints of the 15T, 35T and 50T varieties.
We have also started experimenting with the Kintex-7 parts.
The aim is to eventually document all parts in the Xilinx 7-series FPGAs but we can not do this alone, we need your help!
- Write a TODO list
There are a couple of guidelines when contributing to Project X-Ray which are listed here.
All contributions should be sent as GitHub Pull requests.
All code in the Project X-Ray repository is licensed under the very permissive
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All new contributions must also be released under this license.
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To improve tracking of who did what, we follow the Linux Kernel's "sign your work" system. This is also called a "DCO" or "Developer's Certificate of Origin".
All commits are required to include this sign off and we use the Probot DCO App to check pull requests for this.
The sign-off is a simple line at the end of the explanation for the patch, which certifies that you wrote it or otherwise have the right to pass it on as a open-source patch. The rules are pretty simple: if you can certify the below:
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then you just add a line saying
Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random@developer.example.org>
using your real name (sorry, no pseudonyms or anonymous contributions.)
You can add the signoff as part of your commit statement. For example:
git commit --signoff -a -m "Fixed some errors."
Hint: If you've forgotten to add a signoff to one or more commits, you can use the following command to add signoffs to all commits between you and the upstream master:
git rebase --signoff upstream/master
In addition to the above contribution guidelines, see the guide to updating the Project X-Ray docs.