How to Program FPGA fabric in Emulated ZYNC board in QEMU

[manohar]

Hi,

I'm looking for different methods to program my customized accelerator logic over emulated FPGA fabric of zync board in QEMU. Normally I can use ISE or Vivado to program my custom logic on real FPGA board. How can I do this in Emulation case?

How can I integrate the custom logic in to existing Xilinx-QEMU VM, or how can I integrate an IP block for emulation?

[muzaffer]

there is no support for emulating the PL in QEMU. Xilinx is allegedly working on this but not till 2017.1.

[manohar]

The following link has integrated/mapped some SystemC coded accelerator block with emulated ZYNC FPGA in QEMU.

http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~gerstl/ee382v_f14/labs/lab1/QEMU_TLMu_Tutorial.htm

Is this emulation of FPGA fabric?

[muzaffer]

Yes, it is but at a high level ie SystemC level. The nice thing is that the HLS from Xilinx can convert SystemC models to RTL which means you can use this SystemC extended QEMU to model all of your system.