plutosdr-fw

PlutoSDR Firmware for the ADALM-PLUTO Active Learning Module

Latest binary Release :

Firmware License : and many others.

Instructions from the Wiki: Building the image

• Build Instructions

 sudo apt-get install git build-essential fakeroot libncurses5-dev libssl-dev ccache
 sudo apt-get install dfu-util u-boot-tools device-tree-compiler libssl1.0-dev mtools
 sudo apt-get install bc python cpio zip unzip rsync file wget
 git clone --recursive https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/plutosdr-fw.git
 cd plutosdr-fw
 export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-
 export PATH=$PATH:/opt/Xilinx/SDK/2018.2/gnu/aarch32/lin/gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi/bin
 export VIVADO_SETTINGS=/opt/Xilinx/Vivado/2018.2/settings64.sh
 make

The project may build also using Vivado 2017.4, 2017.2, 2016.4 or 2016.2. However 2018.2 is the current tested FPGA systhesis toolchain. In the v0.30 release we swithched to the arm-linux-gnueabihf-gcc hard-float toolchain.

If you want to use the former arm-xilinx-linux-gnueabi-gcc soft-float toolchain included in SDK 2017.2. Following variables should be exported:

export CROSS_COMPILE=arm-xilinx-linux-gnueabi-
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/Xilinx/SDK/2017.2/gnu/arm/lin/bin
export VIVADO_SETTINGS=/opt/Xilinx/Vivado/2017.4/settings64.sh

And you need to revert this patch: https://github.com/analogdevicesinc/buildroot/commit/fea212afc7dc0ee530762a1921d9ae8180778ffa

If you receive an error similar to the following:

Starting SDK. This could take few seconds... timeout while establishing a connection with SDK
   while executing
"error "timeout while establishing a connection with SDK""
   (procedure "getsdkchan" line 108)
   invoked from within
"getsdkchan"
   (procedure "createhw" line 26)
   invoked from within
"createhw {*}$args"
   (procedure "::sdk::create_hw_project" line 3)
   invoked from within
"sdk create_hw_project -name hw_0 -hwspec build/system_top.hdf"
   (file "scripts/create_fsbl_project.tcl" line 5)

you may be able to work around it by preventing eclipse from using GTK3 for the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT). Prior to running make, also set the following environment variable:

export SWT_GTK3=0

This problem seems to affect Ubuntu 16.04LTS only.

• Updating your local repository

     git pull
     git submodule update --init --recursive

• Build Artifacts

     [email protected]:~/devel/plutosdr-fw$ ls -AGhl build
   total 55M
   -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael   69 Okt  9 14:24 boot.bif
   -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 446K Okt  9 14:24 boot.bin
   -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 446K Okt  9 14:24 boot.dfu
   -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 575K Okt  9 14:24 boot.frm
   -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 8,8M Okt  9 14:24 pluto.dfu
   -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 8,8M Okt  9 14:24 pluto.frm
   -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael   33 Okt  9 14:24 pluto.frm.md5
   -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 8,8M Okt  9 14:24 pluto.itb
   -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael  17M Okt  9 14:24 plutosdr-fw-v0.23.zip
   -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 466K Okt  9 14:24 plutosdr-jtag-bootstrap-v0.23.zip
   -rw-r--r-- 1 michael 4,7M Okt  9 14:23 rootfs.cpio.gz
   drwxrwxr-x 6 michael 4,0K Okt  9 14:24 sdk
   -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 940K Okt  9 14:24 system_top.bit
   -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 358K Okt  9 14:23 system_top.hdf
   -rwxrwxr-x 1 michael 409K Okt  9 14:24 u-boot.elf
   -rw-rw---- 1 michael 128K Okt  9 14:24 uboot-env.bin
   -rw-rw---- 1 michael 129K Okt  9 14:24 uboot-env.dfu
   -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 4,6K Okt  9 14:24 uboot-env.txt
   -rwxrwxr-x 1 michael 3,2M Okt  9 14:23 zImage
   -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael  17K Okt  9 14:23 zynq-pluto-sdr.dtb
   -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael  17K Okt  9 14:23 zynq-pluto-sdr-revb.dtb

• Main targets

  File	Comment
  pluto.frm	Main PlutoSDR firmware file used with the USB Mass Storage Device
  pluto.dfu	Main PlutoSDR firmware file used in DFU mode
  boot.frm	First and Second Stage Bootloader (u-boot + fsbl + uEnv) used with the USB Mass Storage Device
  boot.dfu	First and Second Stage Bootloader (u-boot + fsbl) used in DFU mode
  uboot-env.dfu	u-boot default environment used in DFU mode
  plutosdr-fw-vX.XX.zip	ZIP archive containg all of the files above
  plutosdr-jtag-bootstrap-vX.XX.zip	ZIP archive containg u-boot and Vivao TCL used for JATG bootstrapping

• Other intermediate targets

  File	Comment
  boot.bif	Boot Image Format file used to generate the Boot Image
  boot.bin	Final Boot Image
  pluto.frm.md5	md5sum of the pluto.frm file
  pluto.itb	u-boot Flattened Image Tree
  rootfs.cpio.gz	The Root Filesystem archive
  sdk	Vivado/XSDK Build folder including the FSBL
  system_top.bit	FPGA Bitstream (from HDF)
  system_top.hdf	FPGA Hardware Description File exported by Vivado
  u-boot.elf	u-boot ELF Binary
  uboot-env.bin	u-boot default environment in binary format created form uboot-env.txt
  uboot-env.txt	u-boot default environment in human readable text format
  zImage	Compressed Linux Kernel Image
  zynq-pluto-sdr.dtb	Device Tree Blob for Rev.A
  zynq-pluto-sdr-revb.dtb	Device Tree Blob for Rev.B