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+# Lord of the rings: MESI & cache coherence
 
+##### Fabián Montero, Alejandro Soto, Julián Camacho
+
+
+### Introduction
+This is a quad-core soft processor that implements ARMv4 with 64kb cache in each core with no shared cache. It is implemented in a DE-SoC-1 Altera FPGA.
+
+In order to make ARMv4 capable of multicore, ldrex and strexeq were also implemented.
+
+
+### Getting started
+There are two main components in this project. The soft core and software tests and simulations that simulate and can be executed in it.
+
+
+#### Prerequisites
+- An SD card flashed with a Terasic image for the DE-SoC-1 Altera FPGA available at: https://www.terasic.com.tw/en/
+- Nix package manager version > 2.4 with flakes enabled. All other requirements will be installed by Nix. In order to initiate this process, ```cd``` into the root of the project and run the following command:
+
+    nix develop
+
+
+#### Building and loading the bitstream
+In order to build the soft core, run quartus:
+
+    quartus
+
+and open the ```conspiracion.qpf``` project file.
+
+Once the project is loaded, open Platform Designer and ```Generate HDL```. Close Platform Designer and ```Compile Design```, this may take up to 40 mins.
+
+Now click File->Generate Programming Files and use the following settings:
+- Type: Raw Binary File (.rbf)
+- Mode: Passive Parallel x16
+- Change ```output_file.rbf``` to ```output_files/conspiracion.rbf```
+- In the ```Input files to convrert``` section, click ```Page_0``` -> Add files -> ```Output_files/conspiracion.sof```
+- Click ```Generate```
+
+In your terminal, run ```nix develop``` if you hadn't already and run:
+
+    make demo.bin
+
+Notice the printed path.
+
+Plug in your SD card and mount it's ```/boot``` partition and create a directory called ```taller``` inside it. Copy the contents of the printed path into this directory, renaming it to boot.bin:
+
+    cp </printed/path> </path/to/mounted/boot/dir>/taller/boot.bin
+
+Copy the output_files/conspiracion.rbf into taller:
+
+    cp </path/to/the/project/output_files/conspiracion.rbf> </path/to/mounted/boot/dir>/taller/
+
+Unmount your SD card and plug it into the FPGA.
+
+In order to boot:
+- Turn off the reset switch
+- In your terminal, run: ```kermit hps-fpga.kermit```
+- Power the FPGA on
+- Wait for uBoot and Linux to boot
+- In another terminal, run ```scrripts/jtag_uart.sh```
+- Turn on the reset switch
+
+Done! :)
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