cReComp

creator for Reconfigurable hw Component

What is the cReComp?

The cReComp is a code generator and framework for componentization of a single hardware or the multiple hardware. The component generated by the cReComp is HW/SW co-system that is connected between CPU and FPGA (reconfigurable hw). The cReComp is possible to debug and test single hardware with software in a user development phase. When the development of a each hardware have been finished, the cReComp generates one of the HW/SW co-system by integrating the each of the hardware.

cReComp supports ROS

ROS is an open source project by OSRF (Open Source Robotics Foundation). It is not an operating system but a software platform for component-oriented development of robotic application software on an OS. Communication library and a build system for robotic application software are provided in ROS. cReComp can generated ROS-compliant component which is included FPGA processing.

Update

• 2016/11/29 version 1.5.1

  • Added testbench generation. You can generate a testbench with option “-t”.

• 2016/11/29 version 1.5.0

  • cReComp can generate a ROS package with Python code. So, you can use the component more easy.

  • The Component generation with C++ is unable, since the function is debugging now.

• 2016/07/25 version 1.4.0

  • scrp_parser was improved functionally and become to be able to parse more accurately

• 2016/07/05 version 1.3.0

  • scrp supported ROS packages generation

• 2016/07/04 version 1.1.0 & 1.2.0

  • cReComp supported configuration with scrp (specification for cReComp)

  • cReComp supported ROS package generation

• 2016/06/30 version 1.0.0

  • Released first version

Installation

sudo apt-get install python

sudo apt-get install iverilog

brew install icarus-verilog

pip install jinja2

git clone https://github.com/PyHDI/pyverilog.git
cd pyverilog/
python setup.py install

git clone https://github.com/PyHDI/veriloggen.git
cd veriloggen/
python setup.py install

git clone https://github.com/kazuyamashi/cReComp.git
cd cReComp/
python setup.py install

pip install crecomp

Command usage

Options:
Usage: crecomp [option] [file name] [-u user logic path]+

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u USERLOGIC, --userlogic=USERLOGIC
                        specifier your user logic name
  -p PYTHON_TEMPLATENAME, --python_template=PYTHON_TEMPLATENAME
                        specifier for template name
  -s SCRP_TEMPLATENAME, --scrp_template=SCRP_TEMPLATENAME
                        specifier for template name
  -b SCRP_PATH, --build=SCRP_PATH
                        specifier target scrp file to build for componentize
  -t TEST_PATH, --test=TEST_PATH
                        generate testbench of target user logic

Getting Started

Publication

1. Kazushi Yamashina, Takeshi Ohkawa, Kanemitsu Ootsu, Takashi Yokota, ``cReComp: Automated Design Tool for ROS-Compliant FPGA Component,’’ IEEE 10th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC-16) @ Lyon, France, 2016.9

• Kazushi Yamashina, Takeshi Ohkawa, Kanemitsu Ootsu, Takashi Yokota, ``Functional improvement of cReComp Design tool for software-component generation of FPGA processing, RECONF @ Toyama, Japan, 2016.9

• Kazushi Yamashina, Hitomi Kimura, Takeshi Ohkawa, Kanemitsu Ootsu, Takashi Yokota, ``Automatic Design Environment for Componentization of an FPGA Processing in ROS,’’ Annual Conference of the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers, SCI’16 @ Kyoto, Japan, 2016.5