The goal of this project is to support FPGA programming without requiring installation of the commercial FPGA tools. It is a lightweight wrapper around openocd to program both hardware (FPGA bitstream) and software (ARM FSBL + ELF).

Prerequisites

Install openocd: sudo apt install openocd

Running

usage: ./fpga_programmer.py [-h] [--bit BIT] [--fsbl FSBL] [--elf ELF] board

positional arguments:
  board

optional arguments:
  -h, --help   show this help message and exit
  --bit BIT    FPGA bitstream (.bit) path
  --fsbl FSBL  First stage bootloeader (.elf) path
  --elf ELF    Executable (.elf) path

Currently supported boards:

• zedboard
• zybo
• basys3

Hardware Only

If you only want to program hardware, just provide the --bit bitstream and ignore the software arguments.

Running Software

You can run software by specifying just the --elf option. The boards folder already contains basic bitstream and FSBL files, so you don't need to provide these options unless you need specific hardware or bootloader code.

Todo List of Features

• Add support for PYNQ and Ultra96 boards.