Creating and building example Vivado project (BELK/BXELK)

Info Box Applies to Bora Applies to BORA Xpress Applies to BORA Lite

In this document, the Vivado installation path may be indicated as vivado_201x.y. Just replace x and y with the actual numbers of your version. For instance, use the string vivado_2014.4 if you are working with Vivado 2014.4.

History

Version	Date	BELK/BXELK version	Notes
1.0.0	November 2015	3.0.0	First release
2.0.0	July 2017	3.0.0, 4.0.0	Updates for BELK 4.0.0 / BXELK 2.0.0
2.0.1	September 2019	3.0.0, 4.0.0	Clarified U-Boot rebuild requirement Added Downloading the bitstream to the device section
3.0.0	December 2019	4.1.0, 2.1.0

Introduction

BELK/BXELK provides an example Vivado project for BORA/BORAX/BORALITE boards. This project allows to:

• generate the PS configuration files to be used with U-boot SPL build
• generate the bitstream of a simple PL design used to route PS' CAN0 and UART0 signals through EMIO (see also the following pictures).

Block diagram of BORA example project

Block diagram of BORAX example project

Block diagram of BORALITE example project

This article describes how two build this project. Two procedures are described, the former is command line based while the latter is GUI based.

The project is stored is a git repository, as described here.

It is assumed that the Zynq development environment has been set up properly (see this page for more details).

Command line based procedure

The following procedure is detailed for Bora board. For BoraX board please replace: bora with borax recreate_project_bora_BASE with recreate_project_borax_BASE For BoraLite board please replace: bora with boralite recreate_project_bora_BASE with recreate_project_boralite_BASE

• start the Zynq development server and login into the system
• assuming that a local repository has not been created, clone the remote BORA git repository:

  git clone git@git.dave.eu:dave/bora/bora.git

• copy the <bora_repo>/boards/ directory to <vivado_install_dir>/data/boards/

cd <bora_repo>
sudo cp -r boards/ /opt/Xilinx/Vivado/<Vivado_version>/data/

• launch the Vivado Design Suite with the following commands:

. /opt/Xilinx/Vivado/<Vivado_version>/settings64.sh
vivado -mode tcl -source scripts/recreate_project_bora_BASE.tcl -notrace -tclargs "gen_bitstream"

• At the end of the bitstream build process, the build_project_* script allows to automatically export hardware and lauch SDK.
• By default FSBL is not used anymore in the boot process. U-Boot SPL (first-stage bootloader) is used instead. PS configuration files are used to build U-boot binaries.
  • Copy the ps7_init_gpl.c and ps7_init_gpl.h source files into U-boot source code directory using the following command example for Bora:

cp <bora_repo>/vivado/bora.srcs/sources_1/bd/bora/ip/bora_processing_system7_0_0/ps7_init_gpl.* <U-boot_src_dir>/board/dave/bora/bora/

• Follow U-boot build instructions to build U-boot using new PS configurations. Please note that the U-Boot binary images released along with BELK/BXELK were already built upon the ps7_init_gpl.c and ps7_init_gpl.h source files generated by the Vivado project described in this article. As such, it is not generally required to rebuild U-Boot.
  • The PS configurations are the same for Bora and BoraLite boards.

GUI based procedure

The following procedure is detailed for Bora board. For BoraX board please replace: bora_wrapper.v with borax_wrapper.v bora_pinout.xdc with borax_pinout.xdc bora_timings.xdc with borax_timings.xdc bora.sdk with borax.sdk bora_wrapper.bit with borax_wrapper.bit. For BoraLite board please replace: bora with boralite bora_wrapper.v with boralite_wrapper.v bora_pinout.xdc with boralite_pinout.xdc bora_timings.xdc with boralite_timings.xdc bora.sdk with boralite.sdk bora_wrapper.bit with boralite_wrapper.bit.

• start the Zynq development server and login into the system
• assuming that a local repository has not been created, clone the remote BORA git repository:git clone git@git.dave.eu:dave/bora/bora.git

• copy the <bora_repo>/boards/ directory to <vivado_install_dir>/data/boards/ :

cd <bora_repo>
sudo cp -r boards/ /opt/Xilinx/Vivado/<Vivado_version>/data/

• launch the Vivado Design Suite GUI with the following commands:

. /opt/Xilinx/Vivado/201x.y/settings64.sh
vivado

• from the start page click on Create New Project
• click Next
• select the directory build project, insert the name of the project Project Name and click Next
• select RTL Project, enable Do not specify sources at this time and click Next
• on the Default Part form, click on the Boards button to filter the available boards. Select BORA BORAX depending on target SOM and click Next
• check the summary page and click Finish
• For the block design there are two possible ways:
  • Add the existing BD within the repo:
    • select Add sources from the Flow Navigator
    • click on Add or create design sources
    • select Add Files and add <bora_repo>/bd/bora/bora.bd
    • check that the option Copy sources into project is disabled and click finish
  • Create a new block design:
    • click on Create Block Design from the Flow Navigator
    • insert bora as Design name and click OK
    • this creates a new block design. From the Diagram tab, add a new IP:
      • click the Add IP side button, or
      • click Add IP on the upper suggestions bar
    • double click on ZYNQ7 Processing System
    • this adds the IP that models the PL component of Zynq. Launch Run Block Automation from the upper suggestions bar
    • check that Apply Board Preset is selected and click OK
      • this applies the default settings for BORA/BORAX and creates the I/O ports for the DDR and MIO pins
    • UART_0 and CAN_0 connections must be manually created:
      • right-clicking on each port (where mouse cursor switch to pencil) and selecting Make External or with keyboard shortcut Ctrl+T. The name of the external ports must be UART_0 and CAN_0 respectively, otherwise correct manually
    • manually connect the FCLK_CLK0 signal to M_AXI_GP0_ACLK and save the block design
    • from the sources tab, select the BORA block design bora.bd as Design Sources and from the context menu select Create HDL Wrapper
    • on the next window, select Let Vivado menage wrapper and auto-update and click OK
    • this creates the Verilog file bora_wrapper.v. If this file is not automatically included in the project, add it using the Add sources option
      • select Add or create design sources and click Next
      • select the bora_wrapper.v file from the <prj_name>.srcs/sources_1/bd/bora/hdl/ directory

• select Add sources and click on Add or create constraints
• select the bora_pinout.xdc and bora_timings.xdc files from the constr directory of the BORA repository
• check that the option Copy constraints files into project is disabled and click finish
• create the synthesis, implementation and bitstream clicking Generate Bitstream from the Flow Navigator and wait the completion of the operation
• once completed, select Open Implemented Design
• create the binary bitstream running the tcl script provided with the BORA repository. Launch Tools -> Run Tcl Script
• select the generate_binary_bitstream.tcl file from the scripts directory from the BORA repository
• Copy the ps7_init_gpl.c and ps7_init_gpl.h source files into U-boot source code directory using the following command example for Bora:

cp <project_directory>/bora.srcs/sources_1/bd/bora/ip/bora_processing_system7_0_0/ps7_init_gpl.* <U-boot_src_dir>/board/dave/bora/bora/Follow U-boot build instructions to build U-boot using new PS configurations. Please note that the U-Boot binary images released along with BELK/BXELK were already built upon the ps7_init_gpl.c and ps7_init_gpl.h source files generated by the Vivado project described in this article. As such, it is not generally required to rebuild U-Boot.

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Downloading the bitstream to the device

Once the bitstream is ready, U-Boot itself can be used to download it onto the device. There are other options, however. For more details, please refer to this section.

Helloworld from UART0

Using the FPGA bitstream previously created, it is possible to use serial tty port on Linux. The serial port is mapped to /dev/ttyPS1 (this is because /dev/ttyPS0 is the console mapped to UART1).

Here below an example on C code for initializing and using UART0 through FPGA:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h> 
#include <termios.h>

int set_interface_attribs (int fd, int speed, int parity)
{
        struct termios tty;
        memset (&tty, 0, sizeof tty);
        if (tcgetattr (fd, &tty) != 0)
        {
                printf("error %d from tcgetattr", errno);
                return -1;
        }

        cfsetospeed (&tty, speed);
        cfsetispeed (&tty, speed);

        tty.c_cflag = (tty.c_cflag & ~CSIZE) | CS8;     // 8-bit chars
        // disable IGNBRK for mismatched speed tests; otherwise receive break
        // as \000 chars
        tty.c_iflag &= ~IGNBRK;         // disable break processing
        tty.c_lflag = 0;                // no signaling chars, no echo,
                                        // no canonical processing
        tty.c_oflag = 0;                // no remapping, no delays
        tty.c_cc[VMIN]  = 0;            // read doesn't block
        tty.c_cc[VTIME] = 5;            // 0.5 seconds read timeout

        tty.c_iflag &= ~(IXON | IXOFF | IXANY); // shut off xon/xoff ctrl

        tty.c_cflag |= (CLOCAL | CREAD);// ignore modem controls,
                                        // enable reading
        tty.c_cflag &= ~(PARENB | PARODD);      // shut off parity
        tty.c_cflag |= parity;
        tty.c_cflag &= ~CSTOPB;
        tty.c_cflag &= ~CRTSCTS;

        if (tcsetattr (fd, TCSANOW, &tty) != 0)
        {
                printf("error %d from tcsetattr", errno);
                return -1;
        }
        return 0;
} 


int main()
{
	int fd;
	char *portname = "/dev/ttyPS1";

	char msg[] = "Hello World from BELK (FPGA PS0 UART)!\n\r";

	fd = open(portname, O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY | O_SYNC);
	if (fd < 0)
	{
        	printf("error %d opening %s: %s", errno, portname, strerror (errno));
	        exit(1);
	}
	printf(msg);

	set_interface_attribs (fd, B115200, 0);  // set speed to 115,200 bps, 8n1 (no parity)
	write(fd, msg, strlen(msg));

	exit(0);
}

and then compile it:

dvdk@vagrant-ubuntu-trusty-64:~/bora/rfs/belk/home/root$ $CC hello_UART0.c -o hello_UART0

The program executed print out the msg string on the serial console and on /dev/ttyPS1 port.