Toolchain Setup

Introduction

This is based on Quickfeather getting started. There are instructions there for compiling from source.

Prerequisites

Some prerequisites for a Debian / Ubuntu environment:

sudo apt install build-essential
sudo apt remove modemmanager
sudo usermod -a -G dialout $USER

Note: If you just added your user to dialout, log out and then back in again to apply the new membership

Let's attempt to contain everything in a single directory:

export INSTALL_DIR="$HOME/ql-eos-s3"
mkdir $INSTALL_DIR
cd $INSTALL_DIR

ARM toolchain

First up, get ARM GCC:

wget https://developer.arm.com/-/media/Files/downloads/gnu-rm/9-2020q2/gcc-arm-none-eabi-9-2020-q2-update-x86_64-linux.tar.bz2
tar xvjf gcc-arm-none-eabi-9-2020-q2-update-x86_64-linux.tar.bz2 -C $INSTALL_DIR

export PATH=$INSTALL_DIR/gcc-arm-none-eabi-9-2020-q2-update/bin/:$PATH

FPGA toolchain

Then Symbiflow:

wget 'https://github.com/QuickLogic-Corp/quicklogic-fpga-toolchain/releases/download/v1.3.0/Symbiflow_v1.3.0.gz.run'
bash Symbiflow_v1.3.0.gz.run

export PATH="$INSTALL_DIR/install/bin:$INSTALL_DIR/install/bin/python:$PATH"
source "$INSTALL_DIR/conda/etc/profile.d/conda.sh"
conda activate

And the TinyFPGA bootloader:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/QuickLogic-Corp/TinyFPGA-Programmer-Application.git

pip3 install pyserial
pip3 install tinyfpgab

Note: Make sure to activate conda in the previous step before using pip3 to install the python eggs

SDK

Now for the SDK and Blinkinlabs exmaples:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/QuickLogic-Corp/qorc-sdk.git

cd qorc-sdk
git clone https://github.com/Blinkinlabs/bl_apps.git

Default enviromnet

To make the tools available in your default environment, add the following to your .bashrc:

# ARM gcc toolchain
export PATH=$HOME/ql-eos-s3/gcc-arm-none-eabi-9-2020-q2-update/bin/:$PATH

# FPGA toolchain for ql-eos-s3
export INSTALL_DIR="$HOME/ql-eos-s3"
export PATH="$HOME/ql-eos-s3/install/bin:$HOME/ql-eos-s3/install/bin/python:$PATH"
source "$HOME/ql-eos-s3/conda/etc/profile.d/conda.sh"
conda activate