M2GL025 Mi-V

Overview

The Microchip M2GL025 board is an IGLOO2 FPGA based development board. The Mi-V RISC-V soft CPU can be deployed on the MGL025 board. More information can be found on Microchip’s website.

Programming and debugging

Building

Applications for the m2gl025_miv board configuration can be built as usual (see Building an Application):

west build -b m2gl025_miv

Flashing

In order to upload the application to the device, you’ll need OpenOCD and GDB with RISC-V support. You can get them as a part of SoftConsole SDK. Download and installation instructions can be found on Microchip’s SoftConsole website.

With the necessary tools installed, you can connect to the board using OpenOCD. To establish an OpenOCD connection run:

sudo LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<softconsole_path>/openocd/bin \
<softconsole_path>/openocd/bin/openocd  --file \
<softconsole_path>/openocd/share/openocd/scripts/board/microsemi-riscv.cfg

Leave it running, and in a different terminal, use GDB to upload the binary to the board. You can use the RISC-V GDB from a toolchain delivered with SoftConsole SDK.

Here is the GDB terminal command to connect to the device and load the binary:

<softconsole_path>/riscv-unknown-elf-gcc/bin/riscv64-unknown-elf-gdb \
-ex "target extended-remote localhost:3333" \
-ex "set mem inaccessible-by-default off" \
-ex "set arch riscv:rv32" \
-ex "set riscv use_compressed_breakpoints no" \
-ex "load" <path_to_executable>

Debugging

Refer to the detailed overview of Application Debugging.