remotesyn/README.md

Remote synthesis abstraction tool

Remotesyn is a tool which proves a general abstraction for HDL/FPGA toolchains such as Vivado or ISE Webpack. The provided abstractions are:

• GHDL simulation [ghdl]
• SymbiYosys formal verification [symbiyosys]
• Xilinx ISE synthesis and bitstream generation [ISE]
• Xilinx ISE IP core generation [ISE-IP]
• Xilinx isim (ISE) simulation (pre and post synthesis) [isim]
• Xilinx VIVADO synthesis and bitstream generation [VIVADO]
• Xilinx Vivado IP core generation [VIVADO-IP]
• Xilinx xsim (Vivado) simulation (pre and post synthesis) [xsim]

The HDL project is configured with a config file (in ini format) and should provide execution targets specified by a [target.<target_name>] tag with a toolchain setting (see the example directory for examples).

This package provides 3 executables:

• rbuild for local execution of the toolchains, see rbuild -h for more information
• rmbuild for remote execution of the toolchains, see rmbuild -h for more information. The project configuration file should contain a server section with SSH settings
• rmserver for the server side which will execute rbuild when asked by rmbuild. Execution should be done with rmserver host port privkeyfile pubkeyfile authorized_hosts_file

Installing can be done with pip3. Currently the package is not yet in the online repositories so a local installation should be done.