VPR device models generation from Verilog with V2X - Karol Gugala - ORConf 2019
Channel: FOSSi Foundation
Date: 2019-10-12

VPR, an open source Place&Route tool developed primarily by the University of Toronto, describes the FPGA devices architecture using model and pb_type XML files. The XML files can be really complex depending on the device architecture.

V2X is an open source tool for generating FPGA architecture description XML files from Verilog models. The models can be reused as device simulation modes.

Currently V2X supports the following features:

-    Black box models and architecture description definition
-    Complex block aggregation other complex blocks and/or black boxes
-    Routing components
-    FASM (FPGA Assembly) annotations

Presenter: Karol Gugala

Karol Gugala is Engineering Manager at Antmicro, where he is working with open source in various contexts - primarily FPGA and embedded software. Open source enthusiast - involved in a wide variety of FOSS projects.

Talk recorded at ORConf 2019, the Open Source Digital Design conference, held in Bordeaux, France and organized by the FOSSi Foundation.