ChipTools is a utility to automate FPGA build and verification
ChipTools aims to simplify the process of building and testing FPGA designs by providing a consistent interface to vendor applications and automating simulation and synthesis flows.
- Seamlessly switch between vendor applications without modifying build scripts or project files.
- Enhance testbenches with Python based stimulus generation and checking.
- Automate test execution and reporting using the Python Unittest framework.
- Automatically check and archive build outputs.
- Preprocess and update files before synthesis to automate tasks such as updating version registers.
- Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 License.
# Clone the ChipTools repository to your system
$ git clone https://github.com/pabennett/chiptools.git
# Install using the setup.py script provided in the root directory
$ python setup.py install
# Start the ChipTools command line interface
$ chiptools
Refer to the documentation for examples on using ChipTools to simulate and build FPGA designs.
The following tools are currently supported, support for additional tools will be added in the future.
- Modelsim (tested with 10.3)
- ISIM (tested with 14.7)
- GHDL (tested with 0.31)
- Xilinx ISE (tested with 14.7)
- Quartus (tested with 13.1)
- Vivado (tested with 2015.4)