Guineveer

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Introduction

Guineveer is a configurable RISC-V VeeR EL2 SoC. It provides a simple SoC design that can be modified and expanded with new peripherals.

Architecture

The default system architecture of the SoC is shown in the diagram below:

Default memory map

The table below summarizes the SoC's default memory address map:

Start Address	End Address	Size	Type
0x0000_0000	0x1FFF_FFFF	512 MB	VeeR EL2 reserved space
0x3000_0000	0x3000_1000	4 KB	Uart
0x3000_1000	0x3000_2000	4 KB	I3c
0x8000_0000	0x8FFF_FFFF	256 MB	Mem

Requirements

System packages:

• meson
• ninja-build
• gcc-riscv64-unknown-elf
• git
• curl
• make in version 4.4 or newer
• libbit-vector-perl
• verilator

python3 packages:

• pyyaml

Extra Python requirements to run Renode tests:

• psutil
• robotframework==6.1
• robotframework-retryfailed

Usage

For detailed information about system architecture, testing and usage, refer to the documentation.