Development Framework for Open MPW Shuttles

Efabless, Google, and SkyWater Technologies, through the Open MPW and ChipIgnite programs, provide free ASIC fabrication. To help streamline the development flow. This project aims at the creation of the starting template for the development of the projects using the free online Makerchip IDE. The project template will include the visualization of the Caravel harness using the Makerchip’s visual debug feature which will make debugging user designs very easy as compared to the default waveform viewers. This project will also include the support for FPGA prototyping by using the Virtual FPGA labs which have been created using visual debug. The sample user project is used by the open-source designs for the MPW submissions so the proposed project will also involve build flow enhancements to the Caravel sample user project by adding support for TL-Verilog and the Makerchip.