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ULX3S: Revision 3

first steps

Here I will try to document correct order to read documentation to get setup for ULX3S:

https://github.com/emard/ulx3s-bin/blob/master/README.md

udev rule

ujprog

git clone https://github.com/f32c/tools f32c-tools
cd f32c-tools/ujprog/
dpavlin@x200:/mnt/nuc/FPGA/f32c-tools/ujprog$ rm ujprog
dpavlin@x200:/mnt/nuc/FPGA/f32c-tools/ujprog$ make -f Makefile.linux
cc -Wall -D__linux__ -std=gnu99 -static ujprog.c /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libftdi.a /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libusb.a -o ujprog
dpavlin@x200:/mnt/nuc/FPGA/f32c-tools/ujprog$ sudo cp ujprog /usr/local/bin/

  • create udev rule

passthru to access esp32

dpavlin@x200:/mnt/nuc/FPGA/ulx3s-bin/fpga/passthru/passthru-v20-85f$ ujprog -j flash ulx3s_85f_passthru.bit
ULX2S / ULX3S JTAG programmer v 3.0.92 (built Nov 19 2019 10:55:50)
Using USB cable: ULX3S FPGA 12K v3.0.3
[Wed Nov 20 18:02:01 2019] ftdi_sio ttyUSB0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0
[Wed Nov 20 18:02:01 2019] ftdi_sio 1-5.2:1.0: device disconnected
Programming: 100%
Completed in 24.36 seconds.
[Wed Nov 20 18:02:25 2019] usb 1-5.2: reset full-speed USB device number 56 using ehci-pci
[Wed Nov 20 18:02:26 2019] ftdi_sio 1-5.2:1.0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter detected
[Wed Nov 20 18:02:26 2019] usb 1-5.2: Detected FT-X
[Wed Nov 20 18:02:26 2019] usb 1-5.2: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0

update size of your FPGA

dpavlin@x200:/mnt/nuc/FPGA/ulx3s-bin$ usb-jtag/linux-amd64/ftx_prog --product "ULX3S FPGA 85K v3.0.3"

power cycle board to get new usb id, test that it's supported by ujprog

dpavlin@x200:/mnt/nuc/FPGA/ulx3s-bin$ ujprog -r

open source toolchain

dpavlin@klin:/klin/FPGA$ git clone https://github.com/SymbiFlow/prjtrellis
dpavlin@klin:/klin/FPGA/prjtrellis$ ./download-latest-db.sh 

dpavlin@klin:/klin/FPGA/prjtrellis$ cd libtrellis/
dpavlin@klin:/klin/FPGA/prjtrellis/libtrellis$ sudo apt-get install libpython3-dev libboost-python-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-program-options-dev
dpavlin@klin:/klin/FPGA/prjtrellis/libtrellis$ cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local .
dpavlin@klin:/klin/FPGA/prjtrellis/libtrellis$ make