We’ve released a new version of FireSim that adds support for Berkeley Out-of-Order Machine (BOOM) designs as a target! BOOM is a superscalar out-of-order RISC-V implementation built at UC Berkeley by Chris Celio, which you can find more about on GitHub. We’ve successfully run SPECint 2017 with reference inputs to completion on Linux running on BOOM in FireSim on FPGAs on Amazon EC2 F1. Network support is also present, i.e. you can SSH into BOOM running on the FPGA and access the internet from within BOOM running on the FPGA.

For example, check out this GIF of a FireSim-simulated BOOM connected to the Internet and posting a tweet! The gif is real-time, not sped-up.

And the aforementioned posted tweet:

To try BOOM in FireSim on EC2 F1 with pre-built FPGA images, you can follow our Getting Started Guide/Tutorials which have been updated with notes about how to use BOOM-based designs.

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Posted by Sagar Karandikar

We just released FireSim 1.17.0, which adds support for several new on-premises FPGA boards, including:

All of these platforms support all FireSim features, including advanced debugging features like TracerV, Printf Synthesis, and more. FireSim’s automation is also maintained, enabling the ability to build large local clusters of FPGAs and automatically deploy simulations to them. The getting started guides for each FPGA (linked above) explain how to set up host systems of various scales, including:

  • A portable FireSim-host consisting of a laptop with a Thunderbolt-attached Nitefury II FPGA (e.g., FireStarter laptop on slide 32 here)
  • A desktop-based FireSim-host with one or a handful of FPGAs (e.g., FireStation desktop on slide 28 here)
  • A large on-premises FireSim-host cluster with many machines and many FPGAs

All of the platforms listed above are supported using XDMA-based shells. If you were previously using FireSim’s Vitis-based U250 support, we highly recommend migrating to the new XDMA-based U250 flow.

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