Introduction

What is ChipTools?

ChipTools is a build and verification framework for FPGA designs.

What can it do?

ChipTools aims to simplify the process of building and testing FPGA designs by providing a consistent interface to vendor applications and automating simulation and synthesis flows.

Key features

  • Seamlessly switch between vendor applications without modifying build scripts or project files.

  • Enhance testbenches with Python based stimulus generation and checking.

  • Automate test execution and reporting using the Python Unittest framework.

  • Automatically check and archive build outputs.

  • Preprocess and update files before synthesis to automate tasks such as updating version registers.

  • Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 License.

Supported Tools

The following tools are currently supported, support for additional tools will be added in the future.

Simulation Tools

  • Modelsim (tested with 10.3)

  • ISIM (tested with 14.7)

  • GHDL (tested with 0.31)

  • Vivado (tested with 2015.4)

  • Icarus (tested with 0.9.7)

Synthesis Tools

  • Xilinx ISE (tested with 14.7)

  • Quartus (tested with 13.1)

  • Vivado (tested with 2015.4)