# Chipyard Framework [![CircleCI](https://circleci.com/gh/ucb-bar/chipyard/tree/master.svg?style=svg)](https://circleci.com/gh/ucb-bar/chipyard/tree/master)

## Using Chipyard

To get started using Chipyard, see the documentation on the Chipyard documentation site: https://chipyard.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

## What is Chipyard

Chipyard is an open source starter template for your custom Chisel project.
It will allow you to leverage the Chisel HDL, Rocket Chip SoC generator, and other [Berkeley][berkeley] projects to produce a [RISC-V][riscv] SoC with everything from MMIO-mapped peripherals to custom accelerators.
It contains processor cores ([Rocket][rocket-chip], [BOOM][boom]), accelerators ([Hwacha][hwacha]), FPGA simulation tools ([FireSim][firesim]), ASIC tools ([HAMMER][hammer]) and other tooling to help create a full featured SoC.
Chipyard is actively developed in the [Berkeley Architecture Research Group][ucb-bar] in the [Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department][eecs] at the [University of California, Berkeley][berkeley].

## Resources

* Chipyard Website: ...TBD at a later date...
* Chipyard Documentation: https://chipyard.readthedocs.io/

[hwacha]:http://hwacha.org
[hammer]:https://github.com/ucb-bar/hammer
[firesim]:https://fires.im
[ucb-bar]: http://bar.eecs.berkeley.edu
[eecs]: https://eecs.berkeley.edu
[berkeley]: https://berkeley.edu
[riscv]: https://riscv.org/
[rocket-chip]: https://github.com/freechipsproject/rocket-chip
[boom]: https://github.com/ucb-bar/riscv-boom