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ULX3S: Revision 27
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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

esptool and esp32 booting problems

You should be using ecptool from ulx3s-bin repository to quite @emard from https://gitter.im/ulx3s/Lobby#dark-theme

OK then. If you have issues with ESP32 not booting with SD card but booting without SD card then then the fuse burn script from ulx3s-bin should be run. So far so good, you erased its flash, try linux. If no issue then can try to flash micropython and my new ESP32 OTA programmer ecp5.py end uftpd.py

I have wisely taken some esptool.py which works and frozen it in ulx3s, versions change all the time and maybe you took something in the middle of development action :)

install micropython

https://github.com/emard/esp32ecp5/

dpavlin@nuc:/nuc/FPGA$ git clone https://github.com/emard/esp32ecp5/
dpavlin@nuc:/nuc/FPGA$ cd esp32ecp5/
dpavlin@x200:/mnt/nuc/FPGA/esp32ecp5$ wget https://micropython.org/resources/firmware/esp32-idf3-20191120-v1.11-580-g973f68780.bin

It's important to erase flash or micropyhton will complain about corrupt fat filesystem like:

FAT filesystem appears to be corrupted. If you had important data there, you
may want to make a flash snapshot to try to recover it. Otherwise, perform
factory reprogramming of MicroPython firmware (completely erase flash, followed
by firmware programming).

dpavlin@x200:/mnt/nuc/FPGA/esp32ecp5$ ../ulx3s-bin/esp32/serial-uploader/esptool.py --chip esp32 --port /dev/ttyUSB0 erase_flash
esptool.py v2.6-beta1
Serial port /dev/ttyUSB0
Connecting....
Chip is ESP32D0WDQ6 (revision 1)
Features: WiFi, BT, Dual Core, 240MHz, VRef calibration in efuse, Coding Scheme None
MAC: a4:cf:12:55:c5:60
Uploading stub...
Running stub...
Stub running...
Erasing flash (this may take a while)...
Chip erase completed successfully in 8.7s
Hard resetting via RTS pin...


dpavlin@x200:/mnt/nuc/FPGA/esp32ecp5$ ../ulx3s-bin/esp32/serial-uploader/esptool.py --chip esp32 --port /dev/ttyUSB0 --baud 460800 write_flash -z 0x1000 esp32-idf3-20191120-v1.11-580-g973f68780.bin
esptool.py v2.6-beta1
Serial port /dev/ttyUSB0
Connecting....
Chip is ESP32D0WDQ6 (revision 1)
Features: WiFi, BT, Dual Core, 240MHz, VRef calibration in efuse, Coding Scheme None
MAC: a4:cf:12:55:c5:60
Uploading stub...
Running stub...
Stub running...
Changing baud rate to 460800
Changed.
Configuring flash size...
Auto-detected Flash size: 4MB
Compressed 1240192 bytes to 783187...
Wrote 1240192 bytes (783187 compressed) at 0x00001000 in 18.7 seconds (effective 529.3 kbit/s)...
Hash of data verified.

Leaving...
Hard resetting via RTS pin...

dpavlin@x200:/mnt/nuc/FPGA/esp32ecp5$ microcom -p /dev/ttyUSB0
connected to /dev/ttyUSB0
Escape character: Ctrl-\
Type the escape character to get to the prompt.

>>>
> help()
Welcome to MicroPython on the ESP32!

For generic online docs please visit http://docs.micropython.org/

For access to the hardware use the 'machine' module:

import machine
pin12 = machine.Pin(12, machine.Pin.OUT)
pin12.value(1)
pin13 = machine.Pin(13, machine.Pin.IN, machine.Pin.PULL_UP)
print(pin13.value())
i2c = machine.I2C(scl=machine.Pin(21), sda=machine.Pin(22))
i2c.scan()
i2c.writeto(addr, b'1234')
i2c.readfrom(addr, 4)

Basic WiFi configuration:

import network
sta_if = network.WLAN(network.STA_IF); sta_if.active(True)
sta_if.scan()                             # Scan for available access points
sta_if.connect("<AP_name>", "<password>") # Connect to an AP
sta_if.isconnected()                      # Check for successful connection

Control commands:
  CTRL-A        -- on a blank line, enter raw REPL mode
  CTRL-B        -- on a blank line, enter normal REPL mode
  CTRL-C        -- interrupt a running program
  CTRL-D        -- on a blank line, do a soft reset of the board
  CTRL-E        -- on a blank line, enter paste mode

For further help on a specific object, type help(obj)
For a list of available modules, type help('modules')

webrepl

dpavlin@klin:/klin/FPGA$ git clone https://github.com/hyperglitch/webrepl

You can send files from command-line:

dpavlin@x200:/mnt/nuc/FPGA/webrepl$ ./webrepl_cli.py -p ulx3s ../esp32ecp5/ecp5.py 192.168.3.130:/
op:put, host:192.168.3.130, port:8266, passwd:ulx3s.
../esp32ecp5/ecp5.py -> /ecp5.py
Remote WebREPL version: (1, 11, 0)
Sent 22777 of 22777 bytes
dpavlin@x200:/mnt/nuc/FPGA/webrepl$ ./webrepl_cli.py -p ulx3s ../esp32ecp5/uftpd.py 192.168.3.130:/
op:put, host:192.168.3.130, port:8266, passwd:ulx3s.
../esp32ecp5/uftpd.py -> /uftpd.py
Remote WebREPL version: (1, 11, 0)
Sent 19482 of 19482 bytes

open source toolchain

this is old and needs update

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
sudo make install


dpavlin@klin:/klin/FPGA/nextpnr$ cmake -DARCH=ecp5 -DBUILD_GUI=OFF -DTRELLIS_ROOT=../prjtrellis/ .
make
make install

diamond

https://github.com/jandob/lattice-diamond-archlinux/blob/master/eth0DummyToggle

docker

https://gitter.im/ulx3s/Lobby?at=5dff4b08d2dadb38935c570a

https://github.com/dok3r/diamond/

docker run it -v /host/fpga:/fpga - local /host/fpga will end up in /fpga in docker

yes path will be fine
you will be missing make
so inside container you need to yum install make
and yum install libxslt
export ETHMAC=b0:5a:da:XX:XX:XX
set your MAC
docker run -it -v /media/internal/FPGA:/fpga -e LM_LICENSE_FILE=/fpga/license.dat --mac-address=$ETHMAC --privileged --ipc host -v /dev/bus/usb/:/dev/bus/usb/ dok3r/diamond:latest
run docker
yum install make libxslt
go tu project inside fpga folder and find makefile for diamond and then just make

then you share it with docker container with v /yourHOSTfpgadir:/fpgadockerdir -e LM_LICENSE_FILE=/fpgadockerdir
for version you need to use like this dok3r/diamond:version
versions are here
https://hub.docker.com/r/dok3r/diamond/tags
docker run -it -v /media/internal/FPGA:/fpga -e LM_LICENSE_FILE=/fpga/license.dat --mac-address=$ETHMAC --privileged --ipc host -v /dev/bus/usb/:/dev/bus/usb/ dok3r/diamond:v3.7
like this
Not understanding -v /media/internal/FPGA
that is my local FPGA folder with samples and license.dat
it will mount on docker /fpga
and I see now that I need to share prjtrallis folder to docker so it can do ecppll
docker run -it -v /media/internal/FPGA:/fpga -v /local/prjtrellis/libtrellis:/mt/scratch/tmp/openfpga/prjtrellis/libtrellis -e LM_LICENSE_FILE=/fpga/license.dat --mac-address=$ETHMAC --privileged --ipc host -v /dev/bus/usb/:/dev/bus/usb/ dok3r/diamond:v3.7
but for that we will need @kost
we probably need ecppll and tools already there and compiled with centos maybe just binaries

NES

https://gitter.im/ulx3s/Lobby?at=5de033f49319bb5190a9c3b6

oberon

https://gitter.im/ulx3s/Lobby?at=5e007d1e8897197969e3331c

So, I have now managed to build oberon with diamond 3.7.
What I have to do is:

1. Build it with diamond 3.11, which fails
2. mv clocks clocks_save
3. make clean
4. cp -r clocks_save clocks
5. run docker for diamond 3.7
6. edit synpbase/bin/config/platform_check to allow 5.* linux.
7. make
8. Use ujprog in host linux to upload generated bit file

Thanks @kost for adding for adding make and libxslt to the docker image. It would be useful if you could patch the platform_check to allow versions before 3.11 to run on 5.* linux.
I got a lot of errors in the diamond 3.7 docker build, but the .bit file was created.
I can now run oberon and can see windows on the screen, but I don't have a working mouse or keyboard. I would need Goran's USB board to get both mouse and keyboard.
@lawrie i fixed in latest v3.7 - just make sure that you're running latest:

docker pull dok3r/diamond:v3.7

woohoo! Cool
@kost I pulled the latest v3.7 about 10 minutes ago, but still had to edit platform_check.
synpbase/bin/config/platform_check has:

        case $VERSION in
            4.* | 3.* | 2.4.* | 2.6.* )

It needs:

        case $VERSION in
            5.* | 4.* | 3.* | 2.4.* | 2.6.* )

I did the docker pull to make sure I had the latest version.
I changed oberon makefile to generate clocks in already existing directory to get rid of annoying mkdir clocks
In my instructions above it is safer to do make ECPPLL=echo in docker, so that it does not try to use ecppll, but uses the saved clocks that were generated on host linux.

saxxonsoc

linux

Instructions at https://github.com/lawrie/saxonsoc-ulx3s-bin/tree/master/linux
work for me on 85f :-)

https://gitter.im/ulx3s/Lobby?at=5de8ba2f08d0c961b7f3a25f

git clone https://github.com/SpinalHDL/buildroot.git -b saxon buildroot
git clone https://github.com/SpinalHDL/linux.git -b vexriscv --depth 1 linux
cd buildroot
cp board/spinal/saxon_default/linux_nonet.config board/spinal/saxon_default/linux.config
# Add extra options to board/spinal/saxon_default/linux.config
make spinal_saxon_default_defconfig
make linux-rebuild all -j$(nproc)
output/host/bin/riscv32-linux-objcopy -O binary output/images/vmlinux output/images/Image
# Make sure Image is at least 116KB less than 4MB

85f version

https://gitter.im/ulx3s/Lobby?at=5dea74995ac7f22fb57055ae

https://github.com/lawrie/saxonsoc-ulx3s-bin/blob/master/linux/README.md

https://github.com/lawrie/saxonsoc-ulx3s-bin/tree/master/linux/u-boot

https://github.com/SpinalHDL/SaxonSoc/tree/dev/bsp/Ulx3sLinuxUboot

leds

https://gitter.im/ulx3s/Lobby?at=5dec101f46397c721ca4c814

#!/bin/sh
cd /sys/class/gpio
echo 488 > export
echo out > gpio488/direction
for i in 1 0 1 0 1 0
do
  sleep  0.1
  echo   $i > gpio488/value
done

slirp

https://gitter.im/ulx3s/Lobby?at=5df1467d0616d6515e20d197

modifications

https://gitter.im/ulx3s/Lobby?at=5dfced993e3f133894ca9b4b

i2c

https://gitter.im/ulx3s/Lobby?at=5dfcf29acf771f7708ff69e9

It should not be that hard. I have i2c in SaxonSoc in other projects such as https://github.com/SpinalHDL/SaxonSoc/blob/dev/hardware/scala/saxon/board/blackice/BlackiceSocArduino.scala#L25

The generated board support packages include a generated dts, but it is not used yet and the simple i2c generator that I wrote does not generate the dts.

There is a problem building SaxonSoc Linux, that some build randomly do not work. It seems to be something to do with SDRAM access.

@Dolu1990 is about to redo the SDRAM access for the Ulx3s, which should make it more reliable and faster, as he plans to support double frequency access.

There is a lot of information on the development of the u-boot version here , which might be useful to you - SpinalHDL/SaxonSoc#7

https://github.com/SpinalHDL/SaxonSoc/pull/7

I2c Linux support will also need a spinal.lib driver here - https://github.com/SpinalHDL/linux/tree/linux-5.0.y/drivers/i2c

The terasic De1Soc version of SaxonSoc Linux has a dts entry for an led for disk access - https://github.com/SpinalHDL/buildroot/blob/saxon/board/spinal/saxon_default/spinal_saxon_default_de1_soc.dts#L194

We really need a better GPIO mapping for the Ulx3s. That might involve including adding a second gpio peripheral to the hardware (gpioB) and doing a better lpf file mapping to pins. It might mean increasing the niumbers of pins that support interrupts. It would be good to include access to the buttons and switches and to make it easy to add Pmods that need interrupt support like the enc28j60 one.