TaPaSCo is known to work in this environment:
- Intel x86_64 arch
- Fedora 24/25, Ubuntu 14.04/16.01
- Bash Shell 4.2.x+
Other setups likely work as well, but are untested.
To use TaPaSCo, you'll need working installations of
- Vivado Design Suite 2016.2 or newer
- Java SDK 7+
- sbt 0.13.x
- git
If you want to use the High-Level Synthesis flow for generating custom IP cores, you'll also need:
- Vivado HLS 2016.2+
Check that at least the following are in your $PATH:
sbtvivadogitbash- [
vivado_hls]
Installing multiple versions of Java, Scala and tools like sbt can be a hassle. SDKman! simplifies the process by managing the installations without root requirements. To install sbt, simply
curl -s "https://get.sdkman.io" | bash
Then, run in a new terminal:
sdk install sbt
Try if this worked, via
sbt version
If sbt was successfully installed, it will return its version number.
- Open a terminal in the main directory of the repository and source the
TaPaSCo setup script via
. setup.sh. You need to do this every time you use TaPaSCo (or put it into your~/.bashrcor~/.profile). - Build TaPaSCo:
sbt compile(this may take a while,sbtneeds to fetch all dependencies etc. once). - Create the necessary jar files with
sbt assembly. - Run TaPaSCo unit tests:
sbt test - Optional: Generate sample configuration file:
tapasco -n config.jsonTaPaSCo should exit immediately andconfig.jsonwill include a full configuration that can be read with--configFile, including one example for each kind of job.
When everything completed successfully, TaPaSCo is ready to use!
TaPaSCo is based on ThreadPoolComposer, which was developed by us as part of the REPARA project, a Framework Seven (FP7) funded project by the European Union.
We would also like to thank Bluespec, Inc. for making their Bluespec SystemVerilog (BSV) tools available to us and their permission to distribute the Verilog code generated by the Bluespec Compiler (bsc).