References¶
Xilinx documents one should be familiar with:¶
### UG470: 7 Series FPGAs Configuration User Guide
https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/user_guides/ug470_7Series_Config.pdf
Chapter 5: Configuration Details contains a good description of the overall bit-stream format. (See section “Bitstream Composition” and following.)
### UG912: Vivado Design Suite Properties Reference Guide
http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/xilinx2017_3/ug912-vivado-properties.pdf
Contains an excellent description of the in-memory data structures and associated properties Vivado uses to describe the design and the chip. The TCL interface provides a convenient interface to access this information.
### UG903: Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Using Constraints
The fuzzers generate designs (HDL + Constraints) that use many physical contraints constraints (placement and routing) to produce bit-streams with exactly the desired features. It helps to learn about the available constraints before starting to write fuzzers.
### UG901: Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Synthesis
http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/sw_manuals/xilinx2017_3/ug901-vivado-synthesis.pdf
Chapter 2: Synthesis Attributes contains an overview of the Verilog attributes that can be used to control Vivado Synthesis. Many of them are useful for writing fuzzer designs. There is some natural overlap with UG903.
### UG909: Vivado Design Suite User Guide: Partial Reconfiguration
Among other things this UG contains some valuable information on how to constrain a design in a way so that the items inside a pblock are strictly separate from the items outside that pblock.
### UG474: 7 Series FPGAs Configurable Logic Block
https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/user_guides/ug474_7Series_CLB.pdf
Describes the capabilities of a CLB, the most important non-interconnect resource of a Xilinx FPGA.
Other documentation that might be of use:¶
Doc of .bit container file format: http://www.pldtool.com/pdf/fmt_xilinxbit.pdf
Open-Source Bitstream Generation for FPGAs, Ritesh K Soni, Master Thesis: https://vtechworks.lib.vt.edu/bitstream/handle/10919/51836/Soni_RK_T_2013.pdf
VTR-to-Bitstream, Eddie Hung: https://eddiehung.github.io/vtb.html
From the bitstream to the netlist, Jean-Baptiste Note and Éric Rannaud: http://www.fabienm.eu/flf/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Note2008.pdf
Wolfgang Spraul’s Spartan-6 (xc6slx9) project: https://github.com/Wolfgang-Spraul/fpgatools
Marek Vasut’s Typhoon Cyclone IV project: http://git.bfuser.eu/?p=marex/typhoon.git
XDL generator/imported for Vivado: https://github.com/byuccl/tincr