Common Evaluation Platform (CEP)

By: Brendon Chetwynd, Tony Duong, Kyle Ingols, Kevin Bush, Ricky Hardy, Matthew Hicks, and Michael Moukarzel

Summary

The Common Evaluation Platform (CEP) is intended as a surrogate System on a Chip (SoC) that provides users an open-source evaluation platform for the evaluation of custom tools and techniques. An extensive verification environment provided to ensure the underlying functionality is maintained even after modification.

Contact

Brendon Chetwynd

Interface

Output: Xilinx VC-707 bitstream, waveforms

Dependencies

Itemized in https://github.com/mit-ll/CEP/blob/master/get_external_dependencies.sh

Additional Pre-requisites (per https://github.com/mit-ll/CEP/blob/master/README.md ), “Pre-Requisites”

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS x86_64
Modelsim Questa Sim-64 v2019.1 (for co-simulation and unit simulation)
Xilinx Vivado 2018.3 (Design or System Edition)
- Plus Digilent Adept Drivers for programming the VC-707, https://reference.digilentinc.com/reference/software/adept/start?redirect=1#software_downloads)
Terminal emulator (such as minicom)
bash

Licensing Info

BSD 2-Clause, dependency licenses identified in https://github.com/mit-ll/CEP/blob/master/licenseLog.txt

Toolset can be found at this link

References

Please refer to this link under the heading “Additional Sources of Information”.

Acknowledgments

UCB
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
USC Information Sciences Institute