Verification

This chapter covers the current recommended techniques for verifying BOOM. Although not provided as part of the BOOM or Rocket Chip repositories, it is also recommended that BOOM be tested on “hello-world + riscv-pk” and the RISC-V port of Linux to properly stress the processor.

RISC-V Tests

A basic set of functional tests and micro-benchmarks can be found at (https://github.com/riscv/riscv-tests). These are invoked by the make run targets in the verilator and vcs directories located in the Chipyard template repository.

RISC-V Torture Tester

Berkeley’s riscv-torture tool is used to stress the BOOM pipeline, find bugs, and provide small code snippets that can be used to debug the processor. Torture can be found at (https://github.com/ucb-bar/riscv-torture).

Continuous Integration (CI)

The CircleCI Continuous Integration (CI) tool is used to check pull requests and the master branch of BOOM. All files associated with it can be found in two directories. Firstly, the configuration file used to run CI is located at .circleci/config.yml. This specifies the current tests and builds that are run using which BOOM configurations. Additionally, the DockerFile used to build the CI docker images resides in .circleci/images. Finally, all scripts that are used during the CI run are located at .circleci/. Note that even though BOOM template is cloned during the CI process, the BOOM repository specifies which version of Rocket Chip to use (which in turn determines the proper version of riscv-tools).