Kria™ KR260 Robotics Starter Kit Tutorial

Tool Flow Overview

Tool Flow Overview¶

Introduction¶

This document provides an overview of how the hardware and software components are built for an application.

Tool Flow¶

At a high level, the builds steps are as follows:

AMD Vivado™ platform design: The Vivado design is augmented with platform parameters that describe the metadata and physical interfaces available to the AMD Vitis™ compiler for stitching in PL kernels.
Platform creation: The XSCT utility is used to create an extensible platform whose main component is the XSA created by Vivado in step 1.
PL kernels: The Vitis compiler is used to compile PL accelerator kernels from C/C++ using high-level synthesis (HLS) or to package RTL kernels. The kernels are compiled into xo files and consumed by the Vitis linker in the next step.

Vitis linker and packager: The Vitis linker integrates the PL kernels into the platform and implements the design. It generates a new device image (bitfile) as well as xclbin file containing metadata information about the PL kernels.

Note: Adding PL kernels to a platform is optional. If the system design needs certain acceleration or processing functions, this build step is needed.
Firmware: Vitis created platform containing the PL kernel is a bitfile and the metadata is an xclbin. On ubuntu platform, the bitstream header is stripped to obtain fpga configuration data as a bin object (*.bin), the metadata xclbin is consumed as is from Vitis. A runtime devicetree blob corresponding to the PL bitstream is required (.dtbo) to be loaded as an overlay, which when loaded in kernel, invokes all the drivers corresponding to the PL bitstream. Hence, fpga configuration data ( *.bin), metadata (xclbin), and a device-tree overlay blob (*dtbo) together form the firmware binaries.

Accessing the Tutorial Reference Files¶

To access the reference files, type the following into a terminal:

git clone --branch xlnx_rel_v2022.1 --recursive https://github.com/Xilinx/kria-vitis-platforms.git

Directory Structure¶

The directory structure of the repository is shown below:

kria-vitis-platforms
+-- kr260
¦  +-- Makefile
¦  +-- platforms
¦  ¦   +-- Makefile
¦  ¦   +-- README
¦  ¦   +-- scripts
¦  ¦   +-- vivado
¦  ¦   ¦   +-- kr260_tsn_rs485_pmod
¦  ¦   ¦   +-- kr260_pmod_gps
+--kv260
+-- README

To access firmware repos,

git clone https://github.com/Xilinx/kria-apps-firmware

Next Steps¶

Building the Hardware design using Vivado
Go back to the KR260 SOM designs start page