Tests

To run the hardware tests, you need Modelsim (the testbenches proper are in tb/), and Julia to create the test data (in the reference implementation directory ref/).

To run the driver and software tests, you need the docker container as described below:

Build

First, build the docker container containing the build tools. This will take a while, as it downloads Quartus, SoC EDS, and cross compilation tools. You will need more than 15 GiB free space.

cd docker
docker build . -t quartus-cyclonev-soceds

Then, start the build proper. This will take a while, depending on the steps that have completed/are not yet complete:

• Compile the hardware (~10 minutes)
• Compile uboot (~5 minutes)
• Compile the kernel (~10 minutes)
• Download the Ubuntu rootfs
• Build the SD card image

This needs to run in a privileged container to use the loopback device to create the SD card image.

Run this from the root of the repository:

docker run -it --privileged --net=host -v $PWD:/src -w /src quartus-cyclonev-soceds ./build.sh

The resulting SD card will be in sw/sdcard.img.`

References

• Terasic, for the GHRD template (soc_system_top.sv).
• Columbia University's CSEE 4840 website for information on how to incorporate linux and our hardware.
• "Pipelined fast 2D DCT architecture for JPEG image compression" by Agostini et. al for details on implementing the DCT step of our JPEG encoder.