plutosdr-fw

November 3, 2023 · View on GitHub

PlutoSDR Firmware for the ADALM-PLUTO Active Learning Module

Latest binary Release : GitHub Release Github Releases

Firmware License : Many Licenses Many License Many License Many 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 VIVADO_SETTINGS=/opt/Xilinx/Vivado/2021.2/settings64.sh
 make

Due to incompatibility between the AMD/Xilinx GCC toolchain supplied with Vivado/Vitis and Buildroot. This project switched to Buildroot external Toolchain: Linaro GCC 7.3-2018.05 7.3.1

https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/7.3-2018.05/arm-linux-gnueabihf/

This toolchain is used to build: Buildroot, Linux and u-boot

"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: 
```bash
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
     michael@HAL9000:~/devel/plutosdr-fw$ ls -AGhl build
     total 543M
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael   69 Mär  1 09:28 boot.bif
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 443K Mär  1 09:28 boot.bin
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 443K Mär  1 09:28 boot.dfu
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 572K Mär  1 09:28 boot.frm
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 475M Mär  1 09:28 legal-info-v0.36.tar.gz
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 617K Mär  1 09:25 LICENSE.html
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael  11M Mär  1 09:27 pluto.dfu
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael  11M Mär  1 09:28 pluto.frm
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael   33 Mär  1 09:28 pluto.frm.md5
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael  11M Mär  1 09:27 pluto.itb
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael  20M Mär  1 09:28 plutosdr-fw-v0.36.zip
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 578K Mär  1 09:28 plutosdr-jtag-bootstrap-v0.36.zip
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 441K Mär  1 09:26 ps7_init.c
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 442K Mär  1 09:26 ps7_init_gpl.c
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 4,2K Mär  1 09:26 ps7_init_gpl.h
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 3,6K Mär  1 09:26 ps7_init.h
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 2,4M Mär  1 09:26 ps7_init.html
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael  31K Mär  1 09:26 ps7_init.tcl
     -rw-r--r-- 1 michael 5,3M Mär  1 09:25 rootfs.cpio.gz
     drwxrwxr-x 6 michael 4,0K Mär  1 09:26 sdk
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 943K Mär  1 09:26 system_top.bit
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 716K Mär  1 09:26 system_top.xsa
     -rwxrwxr-x 1 michael 761K Mär  1 09:28 u-boot.elf
     -rw-rw---- 1 michael 128K Mär  1 09:28 uboot-env.bin
     -rw-rw---- 1 michael 129K Mär  1 09:28 uboot-env.dfu
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael 7,0K Mär  1 09:28 uboot-env.txt
     -rwxrwxr-x 1 michael 4,1M Mär  1 09:24 zImage
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael  22K Mär  1 09:26 zynq-pluto-sdr.dtb
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael  22K Mär  1 09:26 zynq-pluto-sdr-revb.dtb
     -rw-rw-r-- 1 michael  23K Mär  1 09:26 zynq-pluto-sdr-revc.dtb

  • Main targets

    FileComment
    pluto.frmMain PlutoSDR firmware file used with the USB Mass Storage Device
    pluto.dfuMain PlutoSDR firmware file used in DFU mode
    boot.frmFirst and Second Stage Bootloader (u-boot + fsbl + uEnv) used with the USB Mass Storage Device
    boot.dfuFirst and Second Stage Bootloader (u-boot + fsbl) used in DFU mode
    uboot-env.dfuu-boot default environment used in DFU mode
    plutosdr-fw-vX.XX.zipZIP archive containg all of the files above
    plutosdr-jtag-bootstrap-vX.XX.zipZIP archive containg u-boot and Vivao TCL used for JATG bootstrapping

  • Other intermediate targets

    FileComment
    boot.bifBoot Image Format file used to generate the Boot Image
    boot.binFinal Boot Image
    pluto.frm.md5md5sum of the pluto.frm file
    pluto.itbu-boot Flattened Image Tree
    rootfs.cpio.gzThe Root Filesystem archive
    sdkVivado/XSDK Build folder including the FSBL
    system_top.bitFPGA Bitstream (from HDF)
    system_top.hdfFPGA Hardware Description File exported by Vivado
    u-boot.elfu-boot ELF Binary
    uboot-env.binu-boot default environment in binary format created form uboot-env.txt
    uboot-env.txtu-boot default environment in human readable text format
    zImageCompressed Linux Kernel Image
    zynq-pluto-sdr.dtbDevice Tree Blob for Rev.A
    zynq-pluto-sdr-revb.dtbDevice Tree Blob for Rev.B
    zynq-pluto-sdr-revc.dtbDevice Tree Blob for Rev.C