Installation Guide¶

_{By Andrei Tatarnikov}

• Table of contents
• Installation Guide
  • • System Requirements
    • Installation Steps
    • Installing Constraint Solvers
    • Installation Folder Structure
    • Running MicroTESK

System Requirements¶

MicroTESK is a set of Java-based utilities that are run from the command line. It can be used on Windows, Linux and OS X machines that have JDK 1.6 or later installed. To build MicroTESK from source code or to build generated Java models, Apache Ant version 1.8 or later is required. To generate test data based on constraints, MicroTESK needs Microsoft Research Z3 that can work under the corresponding operating system.

Installation Steps¶

1. Download from http://forge.ispras.ru/projects/microtesk/files and unpack the MicroTESK installation package (the .tar.gz file, latest release) to your computer.
2. Download and install constraint solver tools to the <installation folder>/tools folder (see the Installing Constraint Solvers section).
3. Set the <installation folder>/bin as the working directory (add the folder to the PATH environment variable).
4. Now you can run the compile.sh (or .bat) script to create a microprocessor model and the generate.sh (or .bat) script to generate test for this model.

Installing Constraint Solvers¶

To generate test data based on constraints, MicroTESK requires external constraint solver engines. The current version uses the Z3 constraint solver by Microsoft Research (http://z3.codeplex.com/). The Z3 executable should be downloaded and placed to the <installation folder>/tools folder.

• Windows users should download Z3 (32 or 64-bit version) from the following page: http://z3.codeplex.com/releases, unpack the archive and place the z3.exe file to the <installation folder>/tools/z3/windows folder.

• UNIX and Linux users should use one of the links below and place the z3 executable file to the <installation folder>/tools/z3/unix/z3 folder.

  Debian x64	http://z3.codeplex.com/releases/view/101916
  Ubuntu x86	http://z3.codeplex.com/releases/view/101913
  Ubuntu x64	http://z3.codeplex.com/releases/view/101911
  FreeBSD x64	http://z3.codeplex.com/releases/view/101907

• OS X users should download Z3 from http://z3.codeplex.com/releases/view/101918 and place the z3 executable file to the <installation folder>/z3/osx/z3 folder.

Installation Folder Structure¶

The MicroTESK installation folder contains the following subfolders:

arch	Examples of microprocessor specifications and test templates for the described designs
bin	Scripts to run features of MicroTESK (modelling and test generation)
doc	Documentation on MicroTESK and nML/Sim-nML
libs	JAR files and Ruby scripts to perform modelling and test generation tasks
output	Generated Java models of the specified microprocessor designs

Running MicroTESK¶

To generate a Java model of a microprocessor from its nML specification, a user needs to run the compile.sh script (Unix, Linux, OS X) or the compile.bat script (Windows). For example, the following command generates a model from a MIPS ISA specification:

sh compile.sh ../arch/mips/model/newmips.nml

To generate a test program, a user needs to use the generate.sh script (Unix, Linux, OS X) or the generate.bat script (Windows). The scripts require the following parameters: (1) model name , (2) test template file and (3) target test program source code file. For example, the following command runs the mips_demo.rb test template for the MIPS model generated by the command from the previous example and saves the generated test program to the test.asm file:

sh generate.sh newmips ../arch/mips/templates/mips_demo.rb test.asm