Continued improvement in computing efficiency requires functional specialization of hardware designs. Agile hardware design methodologies have been proposed to alleviate the increased design costs of custom silicon architectures, but their practice thus far has been accompanied with challenges in integration and validation of complex systems-on-a-chip (SoCs). We present the Chipyard framework, an integrated SoC design, simulation, and implementation environment for specialized compute systems. Chipyard includes configurable, composable, open-source, generator-based IP blocks that can be used across multiple stages of the hardware development flow while maintaining design intent and integration consistency. Through cloud-hosted FPGA accelerated simulation and rapid ASIC implementation, Chipyard enables continuous validation of physically realizable customized systems.

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Chipyard：定制 SoC 的集成设计、仿真和实现框架


计算效率的持续提高需要硬件设计的功能专业化。人们提出了敏捷硬件设计方法来减轻定制硅架构增加的设计成本，但迄今为止，它们的实践一直伴随着复杂片上系统（SoC）集成和验证方面的挑战。我们展示了 Chipyard 框架，这是一个用于专用计算系统的集成 SoC 设计、仿真和实现环境。 Chipyard 包括可配置、可组合、开源、基于生成器的 IP 模块，可在硬件开发流程的多个阶段使用，同时保持设计意图和集成一致性。通过云托管的 FPGA 加速仿真和快速 ASIC 实施，Chipyard 能够持续验证物理上可实现的定制系统。