Introduction

SoCMake is a hardware build system based on CMake. SoCMake can help you automatize yout build process for hardware designs, either running simulation, code generation, FPGA implementation, synthesis etc...

SoCMake project does not try to create a new build system, instead it is an extension of CMake build system generator. Since CMake is a mature and widely used build system, it can easily cover the requirements needed for hardware design.

Key Features

• Native Support for C++ and C testbenches:
  This makes SoCMake a natural choice of build system for C++ and SystemC testbenches. However it can be also used for Verilog, SV or VHDL only testbenches.
• Cross compilation of target CPU application code:
  CMake's support for cross-compilation makes SoCMake a natural choice for System on Chips design, where a test application needs to be cross compiled for the target CPU.
• CMake maturity and familiar flow: Since CMake is used as a base build system, SoCMake benefits from the stability and the documentation of the project. Configuring the project and running Make targets is also familiar to most Linux users.
• IP block packaging and management: SoCMake provides a way to package IP blocks into independent and self contained git repositories. Which can later be fetched with CPM.cmake package manager.

Supported Languages and Tools

Currently SoCMake supports a number of EDA tools that were used within the SoC project the tool was originaly deveoped for. The list is always growing and soon many more tools will be added.

Type	Supported
Languages	C, C++, ASM, Verilog, SystemVerilog, VHDL, SystemRDL
RTL Simulation	Verilator, Icarus, GHDL, Xcelium, VCS
RTL Linting	Verible
RTL conversion	SV2V, tmrg, tmrv
Synthesis	Yosys, Vivado
PeakRDL	regblock, halcpp, html, docusaurus, ipblocksvg, socgen, ldsgen