CI/CD setup

OpenFPGA implements CI/CD system using Github actions. The following figure shows the Actions implements flow. The source building is skipped if there are changes only in openfpga_flow or docs directory, in which case the docker image compiled for the latest master branch is used for running a regression.

digraph G { node [fontname = "Handlee"]; edge [fontname = "Handlee"]; Trigger [ label = "Action triggered" ]; masterCompare [ label = "Diff with current master" ]; Build [ label = "Changes only in\n openfpga_flow/doc?" shape = diamond ]; BuildDocker [ label = "Run build regression test\nBuild docker images" shape = box ]; PushDockersCond [ label = "Is merge\non master?" shape = diamond ]; PushDockers [ label = "Push docker Images\n(maintain compiled binary\nin docker + Example tasks)" shape = box ]; RunRegression [ label = "Run functional regression test" shape = box ]; Trigger ->masterCompare; masterCompare ->Build; Build -> BuildDocker [ label = "No" ]; BuildDocker -> PushDockersCond; edge[weight=0.5] Build -> RunRegression [ label = "Yes" ]; edge[weight=10] PushDockersCond -> RunRegression [ label = "No" ]; PushDockersCond -> PushDockers [ label = "Yes" ]; edge[weight=2] PushDockers -> RunRegression; { rank=same; PushDockersCond PushDockers; }; }

Build regression test

The OpenFPGA source is compiled with the following set of compilers.

  1. gcc-7

  2. gcc-8

  3. gcc-9

  4. gcc-10

  5. gcc-11

  6. clang-6

  7. clang-7

  8. clang-8

  9. clang-10

The docker images for these build environment are available on github packages.

Functional regression test

OpenFPGA maintains a set of functional tests to validate the different functionality. The test are broadly catagories into basic_reg_test, fpga_verilog_reg_test, fpga_bitstream_reg_test, fpga_sdc_reg_test, and fpga_spice_reg_test. A functional regression test is run for every commit on every branch.

How to debug failed regression test

In case the functional regression test fails, the actions script will collect all .log files from the task directory and upload as a artifacts on github storage. These artifacts can be downloaded from the github website actions tab, for more reference follow this article.

NOTE : The retention time of these artifacts is 1 day, so in case user want to reserve the failure log for longer duration back it up locally

Release Docker Images

ghcr.io/lnis-uofu/openfpga-master:latest

This is a bleeding-edge release from the current master branch of OpenFPGA. It is updated automatically whenever there is activity on the master branch. Due to high development activity, we recommend the user to use the bleeding-edge version to get access to all new features and report an issue in case there are any bugs.

CI after cloning repository

If you clone the repository the CI setup will still function, except the based images are still pulled from “lnis-uofu” repository and the master branch of cloned repo will not push final docker image to any repository .

In case you want to host your own copies of OpenFPGA base images and final release create a github secret variable with name DOCKER_REPO and set it to true. This will make ci script to download base images from your own repo packages, and upload final release to the same.

If you don not want to use docker images based regression test and like to compile all the binaries for each CI run. You can set IGNORE_DOCKER_TEST secrete variable to true.

Note

Once you add DOCKER_REPO variable, you need to generate base images. To do this trigger manual workflow Build docker CI images