Welcome to the MAFIA Project

MAFIA: Multi-Agent-Fabric-Integration-Architecture
An initiative aimed at designing a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Tile-based mesh fabric.

Project Overview

The MAFIA Project is developed by final year Electrical and Computer Engineering students at Bar-Ilan University and the Technion in Israel.

Key Features

• Acceleration of distributed workloads, particularly beneficial for AI inference and learning.
• Traditional program acceleration by utilizing a pipelining approach.
• This SoC design provides a robust platform for versatile tasks, offering improved speed and efficiency

Functionality includes

• RISCV mini-cores and big-cores
• Hardware accelerators
• IO devices such as UART, keyboard, VGA, and DE10-Lite FPGA IO

Technology Stack

The project's RTL is written in SystemVerilog.
We utilize the GNU GCC for the RISCV software stack, which includes linker, assembly, and C source files.
Python is employed for build scripts, post-processing, GUI, and other utilities.

Main Components

Our architecture consists of the following key elements:

• A 4-way Router coupled with a local Endpoint.
• A 5-stage Mini Core that is RV32I compatible.
• A 5-stage Big Core, which is RV32IM CSR compatible and supports MMIO (VGA, UART, FPGA IO, PS2 Keyboard).
• A Memory Subsystem equipped with L1 Instruction and Data Cache, as well as a Memory Controller.

Software Stack to run on SoC

Our system runs on a simple proprietary RISCV embedded OS-like system and includes:

• A software library for VGA graphical capabilities.
• A software library for accessing the FPGA MMIO and special control registers.
• Software examples demonstrating the utilization of many cores for distributed calculations and parallel computation.

Getting Started

For the best experience, we recommend using a Windows machine running vscode + gitbash.
Please follow the instructions in the Walkthrough MAFIA

Prerequisite

Before you start, make sure you have the following tools and software installed:

• RISCV gcc releases & install, a Windows gcc for RISCV ISA.
• Intel design SW for windows, modelsim + quartus + MAX10 (de10-lite).
  Used to compile, simulate & load to FPGA the HW systemverilog design.

Inspiration Behind the Project

This project draws inspiration from innovative players in the field of computing.
These include:

• HammerBlade Manycore:Bespoke Silicon Group | Watch the video on Youtube
• Tesla: DOJO | Watch the video on Youtube
• Tenstorrent: Wormhole & more | Watch the video on Youtube
• Esperanto: ET-SoC-1 | Watch the video on Youtube

Stay Tuned for Updates!

Thank You for Your Interest in the MAFIA Project!