ICALEPCS2023 - List of Authors (Butkowski, L.)

Paper	Title	Page
MO4AO03	The DESY Open Source FPGA Framework	222
	Ł. Butkowski, A. Bellandi, M. Büchler, B. Dursun, Ç. Gümüş, N. Omidsajedi, K. Schulz DESY, Hamburg, Germany
	Modern FPGA firmware development involves integrating various intellectual properties (IP), modules written in hardware description languages (HDL), high-level synthesis (HLS), and software/hardware CPUs with embedded Linux or bare-metal applications. This process may involve multiple tools from the same or different vendors, making it complex and challenging. Additionally, scientific institutions such as DESY require long-term maintenance and reproducibility for designs that may involve multiple developers, further complicating the process. To address these challenges, we have developed an open-source FPGA firmware framework (FWK) at DESY that streamlines development, facilitates collaboration, and reduces complexity. The FWK achieves this by providing an abstraction layer, a defined structure, and guidelines to create big FPGA designs with ease. FWK also generates documentation and address maps necessary for high-level software frameworks like ChimeraTK. This paper presents an overview and the idea of the FWK.
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO4AO03
About •	Received ※ 05 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 13 October 2023 — Issued ※ 13 October 2023
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TUPDP025	Board Bring-up with FPGA Framework and ChimeraTK on Yocto	557
	J. Georg, A.W.C. Barker, Ł. Butkowski, M. Hierholzer, M. Killenberg, T. Kozak, N. Omidsajedi, M. Randall, D. Rothe, N. Shehzad, C. Willner DESY, Hamburg, Germany K. Zenker HZDR, Dresden, Germany
	This presentation will showcase our experience in board bring-up using our FPGA Framework and ChimeraTK, our C++ hardware abstraction library. The challenges involved in working with different FPGA vendors will be discussed, as well as how the framework and library help to abstract vendor-specific details to provide a consistent interface for applications. Our approach to integrating this framework and libraries with Yocto, a popular open-source project for building custom Linux distributions, will be discussed. We will show how we leverage Yocto’s flexibility and extensibility to create a customized Linux image that includes our FPGA drivers and tools, and discuss the benefits of this approach for embedded development. Finally, we will share some of our best practices for board bring-up using our framework and library, including tips for debugging and testing. Our experience with FPGA-based board bring-up using ChimeraTK and Yocto should be valuable to anyone interested in developing embedded systems with FPGA technology
	Poster TUPDP025 [0.567 MB]
DOI •	reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP025
About •	Received ※ 06 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 11 December 2023 — Issued ※ 15 December 2023
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The DESY Open Source FPGA Framework

222

Ł. Butkowski, A. Bellandi, M. Büchler, B. Dursun, Ç. Gümüş, N. Omidsajedi, K. Schulz
DESY, Hamburg, Germany

Modern FPGA firmware development involves integrating various intellectual properties (IP), modules written in hardware description languages (HDL), high-level synthesis (HLS), and software/hardware CPUs with embedded Linux or bare-metal applications. This process may involve multiple tools from the same or different vendors, making it complex and challenging. Additionally, scientific institutions such as DESY require long-term maintenance and reproducibility for designs that may involve multiple developers, further complicating the process. To address these challenges, we have developed an open-source FPGA firmware framework (FWK) at DESY that streamlines development, facilitates collaboration, and reduces complexity. The FWK achieves this by providing an abstraction layer, a defined structure, and guidelines to create big FPGA designs with ease. FWK also generates documentation and address maps necessary for high-level software frameworks like ChimeraTK. This paper presents an overview and the idea of the FWK.

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reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-MO4AO03

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Received ※ 05 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 13 October 2023 — Issued ※ 13 October 2023

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TUPDP025

Board Bring-up with FPGA Framework and ChimeraTK on Yocto

557

J. Georg, A.W.C. Barker, Ł. Butkowski, M. Hierholzer, M. Killenberg, T. Kozak, N. Omidsajedi, M. Randall, D. Rothe, N. Shehzad, C. Willner
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
K. Zenker
HZDR, Dresden, Germany

This presentation will showcase our experience in board bring-up using our FPGA Framework and ChimeraTK, our C++ hardware abstraction library. The challenges involved in working with different FPGA vendors will be discussed, as well as how the framework and library help to abstract vendor-specific details to provide a consistent interface for applications. Our approach to integrating this framework and libraries with Yocto, a popular open-source project for building custom Linux distributions, will be discussed. We will show how we leverage Yocto’s flexibility and extensibility to create a customized Linux image that includes our FPGA drivers and tools, and discuss the benefits of this approach for embedded development. Finally, we will share some of our best practices for board bring-up using our framework and library, including tips for debugging and testing. Our experience with FPGA-based board bring-up using ChimeraTK and Yocto should be valuable to anyone interested in developing embedded systems with FPGA technology

Poster TUPDP025 [0.567 MB]

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reference for this paper ※ doi:10.18429/JACoW-ICALEPCS2023-TUPDP025

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Received ※ 06 October 2023 — Accepted ※ 11 December 2023 — Issued ※ 15 December 2023

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