Firrtl is an intermediate representation (IR) for digital circuits designed as a platform for writing circuit-level transformations. This repository consists of a collection of transformations (written in Scala) which simplify, verify, transform, or emit their input circuit.
A Firrtl compiler is constructed by chaining together these transformations, then writing the final circuit to a file.
For a detailed description of Firrtl's intermediate representation, see the document "Specification of the Firrtl Language" located in spec/spec.pdf.
Useful information is on our wiki, located here:
Some important pages to read, before writing your own transform:
To write a Firrtl transform, please start with the tutorial here: src/main/scala/tutorial. To run these examples:
sbt assembly
./utils/bin/firrtl -td regress -i regress/RocketCore.fir --custom-transforms tutorial.lesson1.AnalyzeCircuit
./utils/bin/firrtl -td regress -i regress/RocketCore.fir --custom-transforms tutorial.lesson2.AnalyzeCircuit
- Firrtl syntax highlighting for Vim users: https://github.com/azidar/firrtl-syntax
- Firrtl syntax highlighting for Sublime Text 3 users: https://github.com/codelec/highlight-firrtl
- Firrtl syntax highlighting for Atom users: https://atom.io/packages/language-firrtl
- Firrtl mode for Emacs users: https://github.com/ibm/firrtl-mode
- Chisel3, an embedded hardware DSL that generates Firrtl: https://github.com/freechipsproject/chisel3
- Treadle, a Firrtl Interpreter: https://github.com/freechipsproject/treadle
- Yosys Verilog-to-Firrtl Front-end: https://github.com/cliffordwolf/yosys
Disclaimer: The installation instructions should work for OSX/Linux machines. Other environments may not be tested.
- If not already installed, install verilator (Requires at least v3.886)
- If not already installed, install yosys (Requires at least v0.8)
- If not already installed, install sbt (Requires at least v0.13.6)
- Clone the repository:
git clone https://github.com/freechipsproject/firrtl.git && cd firrtl - Compile firrtl:
sbt compile - Run tests:
sbt test - Build executable (
utils/bin/firrtl):sbt assembly- Note: You can add
utils/binto your path to call firrtl from other processes
- Note: You can add
- Publish this version locally in order to satisfy other tool chain library dependencies:
sbt publishLocal
- Run a single test suite:
sbt "testOnly firrtlTests.UnitTests" - Continually execute a command:
sbt ~compile - Only invoke sbt once:
sbt
> compile
> test
- Remove unused import:
sbt "firrtl/scalafix RemoveUnused"
- Remove deprecated procedure syntax
sbt "firrtl/scalafix ProcedureSyntax"
utils/bin/firrtl -i regress/rocket.fir -o regress/rocket.v -X verilog // Compiles rocket-chip to Verilog
utils/bin/firrtl --help // Returns usage string
If you use Firrtl in a paper, please cite the following ICCAD paper and technical report: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8203780
@INPROCEEDINGS{8203780,
author={A. Izraelevitz and J. Koenig and P. Li and R. Lin and A. Wang and A. Magyar and D. Kim and C. Schmidt and C. Markley and J. Lawson and J. Bachrach},
booktitle={2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD)},
title={Reusability is FIRRTL ground: Hardware construction languages, compiler frameworks, and transformations},
year={2017},
volume={},
number={},
pages={209-216},
keywords={field programmable gate arrays;hardware description languages;program compilers;software reusability;hardware development practices;hardware libraries;open-source hardware intermediate representation;hardware compiler transformations;Hardware construction languages;retargetable compilers;software development;virtual Cambrian explosion;hardware compiler frameworks;parameterized libraries;FIRRTL;FPGA mappings;Chisel;Flexible Intermediate Representation for RTL;Reusability;Hardware;Libraries;Hardware design languages;Field programmable gate arrays;Tools;Open source software;RTL;Design;FPGA;ASIC;Hardware;Modeling;Reusability;Hardware Design Language;Hardware Construction Language;Intermediate Representation;Compiler;Transformations;Chisel;FIRRTL},
doi={10.1109/ICCAD.2017.8203780},
ISSN={1558-2434},
month={Nov},}
https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2016/EECS-2016-9.html
@techreport{Li:EECS-2016-9,
Author = {Li, Patrick S. and Izraelevitz, Adam M. and Bachrach, Jonathan},
Title = {Specification for the FIRRTL Language},
Institution = {EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley},
Year = {2016},
Month = {Feb},
URL = {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2016/EECS-2016-9.html},
Number = {UCB/EECS-2016-9}
}
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