Experiments

This chapter describes the existing infrastructure to support the creation and execution of experiments on the example bittide system.

Required components

• Example design: Contains all bittide related FPGA logic.
• Programs: The binary files that will be loaded into the CPUs that exist in the example design.
• Driver: Runs on the host PC and communicates with the testbench.
• Testbench: Contains the example design and other necessary logic such as ILA's.

Relevant infrastructure

Names which tools are relevant and where they live

Execution

Describes how tests are executed as part of a CI/CD pipeline.

Writing programs

Describes how to write new programs for the management unit, general purpose processing element or clock control.

Writing a driver

Describes how to write a driver for the experiment.

Adding your experiment to CI/CD

Describes how to add your experiment to the CI/CD pipeline.