Rocket Chip

Overview

Create Micro-Architecture and Software Specification (MASS) Document designed through our methodology that would enable developers or enthusiasts to modify Rocket-Chip’s modules and create an Intellectual Property (IP) using it.

Software Methodology

Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles and high-level Functional Programming concepts were used to better understand the structure of the Rocket-Chip code.

Flowcharts, UML Class Diagrams, and Block Diagrams were made to understand the in-depth functionality of each module inside the Rocket-Chip.

Complexity of Task

Rocket-Chip contains 328 source files of Scala in 23 directories and 33,427 total lines of Scala code.

To the best of our knowledge, there is no previous MASS Document of Rocket-Chip available for micro-architecture as well as software-level understanding.

Future Research

Integrate peripherals with the Rocket-Chip SoC that are not available in the Rocket-Chip repository which includes GPIO, I2C, JTAG etc.

Creates parameterizable Micro-Architecture.

Extend to include the any Extensions.