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Add example resource usage on Artix 7

Open mithro opened this issue 6 years ago • 1 comments

It would be really good to include some information in the README around the resource usage of microwatt.

I would recommend the following stats;

  • [ ] LUT + FF usage
  • [ ] Highest fmax possible
  • [ ] DMIPS/Mhz
  • [ ] Coremark/Mhz

It would also be good to include the information for multiple FPGAs like;

  • [ ] Xilinx Artix 7 using Vivado
  • [ ] Lattice ECP5 using Diamond

It would make it easy to quickly compare it against various other soft processors like Microblaze from Xilinx.

It might also be worth looking at Everyone’s a Critic: A Tool for Exploring RISC-V Projects Paper from FPL to see some ways to benchmark. There is also the awesome An inventory of soft processor cores but it is a little out of date.

mithro avatar Sep 15 '19 00:09 mithro

How big would be the effort to run microwatt on a different fpga? I have a Microsemi Polarfire and would love to try this on it. Thanks.

carlosedp avatar Sep 15 '19 15:09 carlosedp