Abraham Gonzalez

Use conda + Update initial setup docs + Bump FSim

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This PR removes the `*-req.sh` scripts in favor of using Conda (same system that FireSim uses to manage system packages). The `machine-launch-script.sh` is basically the same as FireSim's version but...

### Background Work - [X] Yes, I searched the [mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chipyard) - [X] Yes, I searched the [documentation](https://chipyard.readthedocs.io/) ### Feature Description Supposedly this works in RC and would give a...

Fix CVA6 `.gitignore` warning

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### Background Work - [X] Yes, I searched the [mailing list](https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chipyard) - [X] Yes, I searched the [documentation](https://chipyard.readthedocs.io/) ### Feature Description This isn't a priority but when you run `git`...

Multi-Clock Support for NVDLA

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**Impact**: rtl **Description** Have the NVDLA accelerator be in a different clock domain than the uncore/tile clocks. **What is a motivating example for changing the behavior?** Wanted in #505

**Impact**: other **Description** Related areas: https://github.com/ucb-bar/chipyard/pull/999/files#r723804054 https://github.com/ucb-bar/chipyard/pull/999/files#r723804572 Currently the Docker image hardcodes the aforementioned env. variables: https://github.com/ucb-bar/chipyard/blob/21a44d75967518f696ef27248ec35deee9cac962/dockerfiles/Dockerfile#L33-L36 We should remove this and do the following: * Make sure that the...

Try to speed up VCU118 SDCard loading

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**Impact**: software **Description** In order to get SDCard loading on the VCU118 working, we need to have a slow SPI divisor. https://github.com/ucb-bar/chipyard/blob/45684f1b875f018a1945476cec9269068e1618ca/fpga/src/main/resources/vcu118/sdboot/sd.c#L175 However, it looks like the Freedom platform uses...

#771 adds a new Dockerfile for Chipyard. When 1.5.0 gets released we should create a 1.5.0 Docker image and push it to the DockerHub repository.

YAML Schema Validation (in manager and CI)

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This adds YAML schema validation using https://github.com/23andMe/Yamale (as suggested by @timsnyder-siv in #850 in a comment). This does the following: - Adds a CI check to run YAML validation on...

Ideally, all code that is added to the manager in the future has type hints. This PR helps to enforce this by erroring whenever `Any` is found in certain areas....

Add warn_only to vivado builds

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In the most recent release, Vivado AWS bitstream builds could fail and prevent emails from sending due to a missing `with settings(warn_only=True):` scope. Old code: https://github.com/firesim/firesim/blob/7b5416f23920d4ba7dfa263ec246314e8ed7c8b8/deploy/buildtools/buildafi.py#L121-L126 This should fix things...