Edalize tool API

Note

Refer to the CAPI2 reference documentation or run fusesoc tool list for a list of all available tools and their options.

FuseSoC abstracts away many differences between tools and tries to provide sane defaults to build many designs out of the box with no further configuration required. However, not all tool-specific details can be hidden. At the same time, a certain level of tool-specific configurability is required to make full use of the features available in different tools. Tool options are FuseSoC’s way of customizing the way tools are used to build the design.

When calling fusesoc run on the command line any tool can be chosen to build a design with the --tool argument. If no tool-specific configuration is given in the core file, the default tool configuration is used, which might or might not work for a given design.

To customize tool behavior a tool-specific section can be added to a core file at targets.TARGETNAME.tools.TOOLNAME. The name of the tool (TOOLNAME) must match FuseSoC’s internal tool name (as passed to fusesoc run --tool=TOOLNAME). Depending on the tool different options are available. Refer to the CAPI2 reference documentation for a list of all available tools and their options.

Most tool backends provide a way to set command line options to influence how the tools are called. Typically, these keys are called BINARYNAME_options, and they take a list of arguments as value.

The example below shows how tool options for Icarus Verilog (icarus) and Mentor ModelSim (modelsim) are set.

• The iverilog binary will be called with the -g2012 command-line argument, indicating that SystemVerilog 2012 support should be enabled.

• Similarily, for ModelSim the argument -timescale=1ns/1ns will be passed to the vlog binary, which elaborates the design.

# A fragment from blinky.core
# ...
targets:
  sim:
    # ...
    tools:
      icarus:
        iverilog_options:
          - -g2012 # Use SystemVerilog-2012
      modelsim:
        vlog_options:
          - -timescale=1ns/1ns