Team Gryffindor

Team Members

• Chad Nelson - cnel711
• Mihir Awatramani - mihir
• Mengduo Ma - marinama
• Kuan-Hsing Ho - pm429015

Connecting to the Convey HC-1 Machine

1. Download and install NX Client.
2. Connect to convey-1.ece.iastate.edu using your ISU NetID and the password yournetid@123.
3. Change your password by opening a terminal window and running the passwd command.

You can access the shared /home/cpre584_t2 folder by switching users accounts in the terminal. Simply type su cpre584_t2 and enter our password. Alternatively, you can access the two files Jone's created for us here:

1. Setup your Convey environmental variables (Jone's Script)
2. Here's a copy of the Xilinx 11.1 src file:

source /remote/Xilinx/11.1/settings64.sh
export PATH=$PATH:/remote/Modelsim/6.4b/modeltech/linux_x86_64/
export LM_LICENSE_FILE=1717@io.ece.iastate.edu:27006@io.ece.iastate.edu

Assignment #1

Review Convey System

• Minimum
  • Review architecture documentation
  • Understand how Vector Adder example works
  • Implement Vector Adder example (SW, Modelsim, HW)
• Extra 1: Own simple personality (min: simple mod to Adder)
• Extra 2: Explore other features
  • e.g: using gdb (Gnu Debugger)
  • e.g: SPAT (Simulator Performance Analysis Tool)

Jone's E-mail

Once you log into the convey machine a few documents you will want to start looking through are bellow. Note, there is a lot of detail to learn about the Convey system. I would first suggest browsing through the document below to get a feel for the type of information they contain. I’ve try to highlight some of the sections that will be useful to you and you are getting up to speed with the example application.

• /opt/convey/pdk/2010_08_09/doc/ConveyPDKReferenceManual.pdf
  • Convey PDK Reference Manual (.pdf)
  • This document gives information about how to go about developing your own HW/SW designs on the convey system.
  • Start with section 10.5 to quickly start playing with the system. Then use the rest of Section 10 to help you understand the example C code.
  • You will need to read through of other sections of this document to understand how the overall system works.

• /opt/convey/doc/ConveyProgrammersGuide.pdf
  • Convey Programmers Guide (.pdf)
  • Sections 8.1 and 8.2 gives more details on how to run an application (in SW, Simulation, or Hardware)
  • Section 10.2, give more details on the assembly portions of the sample application from the PDK manual.
  • Chapter 1 and 2 give overview info
  • Chapter 12 talks about Environmental flags
  • Chapter 14 talks about the Personality naming conventions.

• /opt/convey/doc/ConveyReferenceManual.pdf
  • Convey Reference Manual (.pdf)
  • Chapters 1 and 2: Basic Overview
  • Chapter 11: Details on personality structure.

• Convey PDK (.pdf)
• Convey Overview (.pdf)

Running the Sample Program

Section 10.5 of PDK Reference Manual explains how to run the sample application. It has been reproduced below in brief.

10.5.1

The rev version installed on the Convey machine is from 2010-8-9; to copy the sample app run:

cd ~
mkdir pdk_sample
cp -r /opt/convey/pdk/2010_08_09/cae_pers_vadd pdk_sample
cp -r /opt/convey/pdk/2010_08_09/pdk_apps/SampleAppVadd pdk_sample

10.5.2 - 10.5.4

Make the sample project.

cd ~/pdk_sample/cae_pers_vadd/CaeSimPers/
make
cd ~/pdk_sample/SampleAppVadd/
make
./UserApp.exe

Note: Make sure you've setup your environmental variables by running Jone's Script.