sarafs1926 / zcu216-pynq

Board repo for the ZCU216 RFSOC

ZCU216-PYNQ

Board repo for ZCU216 RFSOC. Contains

• ZCU216 board folder with updated device tree.
• tics folder with files that program the LMK/LMX PLLs for the ZCU216 RFDCs.

The user has to also download the prebuilt PYNQ 2.7 rootfs file https://www.xilinx.com/bin/public/openDownload?filename=focal.aarch64.2.7.0_2021_11_17.tar.gz as well as the ZCU216 Petalinux 2020.2 BSP from the Xilinx website.

How to make image.

Method #1: Run the build_ZCU216.sh script after changing the path names for the BSP and rootfs files as indicated within the script. This method automatically places the correct tics files into the correct folder as indicated above. It should take about 4 hours to build the board.

Method #2:

First,

• Place the ZCU216 board folder inside your PYNQ repo in the boards folder. Put the ZCU216 Petalinux 2020.2 BSP within that folder.
• Place the two tics text files inside your PYNQ repo in the sdbuild/packages/xrfclk/package/xrfclk folder, along with the other files that were already there.

Then, from the PYNQ repo in the sdbuild folder, run:

make images PREBUILT=<Path/to/prebuilt/tarball/PYNQ2.7> BOARDS=ZCU216

Note that this method will attempt to make all the boards in the PYNQ/boards folder. If you do not want this to happen, do a local commit of your PYNQ fork after removing the ZCU104 and PYNQ-Z1 board. The PYNQ-Z2 board has to stay as documented here: https://discuss.pynq.io/t/pynq-2-5-2-how-to-disable-synthesis-for-undesired-boards-to-save-time-and-licences/1317 . It should take about 10 hours to build the board.

zcu216-pynq's Issues

error message when writing the pre-built image

after i write the image to sd card and open the terminal in serial port. I see some error happened in terminal, can i just ignore it?
or how can i fix it?

Licensing

Would you mind adding a license to your repository? The BSD-3 license (just as for PYNQ) https://github.com/Xilinx/PYNQ/blob/master/LICENSE might be a good fit. This way, it would be possible to publish derived configurations for other boards. Thank you for considering this change!

Cant run on ubuntu since "can't install both gcc-multilib and gcc-arm-linux"

Thank you for providing us with this functionality.

I am trying to follow your github for building the PYNQ image for the ZCU216 but am running into the following problem on ubuntu 20.04 (Bug #1300211 “Can't install both gcc-multilib and gcc-arm-linux-...” : Bugs : gcc-defaults package : Ubuntu 1). Do you have a workaround for this?

Thanks

Prebuilt Image

Hi @sarafs1926,

Firstly, I just want to say that this is an excellent repository and really useful for our team.

Do you have a prebuilt ZCU216 image available for download? Normally I would expect to see this on the releases page here.

I greatly appreciate your help,

Thanks,
David.

How to port PYNQ on a third-party RFSOC development board

Can you tell me the detailed process?

jupyter notebooks for RFSoC and RFDC

Hey Sara,

Thanks for your working putting this together.

Can you post or recommend .ipynb (jupyter notebooks) that work with and demo the RF data converters on the RFSoC for the ZCU216?

I tried using the ipynb files for the RFSoC 2x2 board, but the pynq.overlays.base module doesn't exist and therefore fails on first code block since it can't initialize drivers or create base overlay with the pynq image created by your workflow.

Any ideas on how to use pynq to get samples to/from the ADC/DAC on ZCU216?

Rob