About Patmos

Patmos is a time-predictable VLIW processor. Patmos is the processor for the T-CREST project. See also: http://www.t-crest.org/ and http://patmos.compute.dtu.dk/

The Patmos [Reference Handbook] (http://patmos.compute.dtu.dk/patmos_handbook.pdf) is work in progress, but contains build instructions in Section 5.

For questions and discussions join the Patmos mailing list at: https://groups.yahoo.com/group/patmos-processor/

Getting Started

Several packages need to be installed. The following apt-get lists the packages that need to be installed on a Ubuntu Linux:

sudo apt-get install default-jdk git cmake make g++ texinfo flex bison \
  subversion libelf-dev graphviz libboost-dev libboost-program-options-dev ruby1.9.1 \
  ruby1.9.1-dev python zlib1g-dev gtkwave gtkterm scala

On a restricted machine (e.g. Cloud9) the bare minimum is:

sudo apt-get install default-jdk git cmake make g++ texinfo flex bison \
  subversion libelf-dev graphviz libboost-dev libboost-program-options-dev ruby1.9.1 \
  ruby1.9.1-dev python zlib1g-dev

Install sbt with:

wget http://dl.bintray.com/sbt/debian/sbt-0.13.2.deb
sudo dpkg -i sbt-0.13.2.deb
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install sbt

We assume that the T-CREST project will live in $HOME/t-crest. Before building the compiler, add the path to the compiler executables into your .profile:

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/t-crest/local/bin

Use an absolute path as LLVM cannot handle a path relative to the home directory (~).

Patmos and the compiler can be checked out from GitHub and are built as follows:

mkdir ~/t-crest
cd ~/t-crest
git clone https://github.com/t-crest/patmos-misc.git misc
./misc/build.sh

For developers with push permission the ssh based clone string is:

git clone git@github.com:t-crest/patmos-misc.git misc

build.sh will checkout several other repositories (the compiler, library, the Patmos source, and benchmarks) and build the compiler, the Patmos simulator, and the test benches. Therefore, take a cup of coffee and find some nice reading (e.g., the [Patmos Reference Handbook] (http://patmos.compute.dtu.dk/patmos_handbook.pdf)).

We can start with the standard, harmless looking Hello World:

main() {
    printf("Hello Patmos!\n");
}

With the compiler installed it can be compiled to a Patmos executable and run with the simulator as follows:

patmos-clang hello.c
pasim a.out

However, this innocent examples is quiet challenging for an embedded system. For further details and how to build Patmos for an FPGA see: [Patmos Reference Handbook] (http://patmos.compute.dtu.dk/patmos_handbook.pdf).

Known Issues

• patmos-llvm currently does not compile with clang > 3.4 on Ubuntu 15.04. As a workaround, uninstall clang, install clang-3.4 and create symlinks clang and clang++ to clang-3.4 and clang++-3.4.