controller-software

Firmware for the motion controller. This project consists of multiple sections:

• Controller software: The actual EM software that runs on the ZYNQ
• Controller Firmware: All files related to generating FPGA configs that the software can later load
• em-os: Petalinux project for building a linux image for the ZYNQ to boot

Initial project setup

Requirements

• Visual Studio Code
• Python 3.12
• Vivado 2023.1
• Surfer (optional, used to view HDL sim trace files)

Setup (windows/linux)

1. Run the "setup project" task in VS Code (Terminal -> Run Task... -> setup project)

This will:

• Run subst to create a new drive leading to vivado files, this is needed to keep path lengths short (windows only)
• Create the python virtual environment
• Install required python packages
• Create the vivado project
• TODO: Create the vitis project

Commiting changes

Vivado

Run the "save vivado project" task in VS Code (Terminal -> Run Task... -> save vivado project)

This will:

• Save the vivado project to a .tcl file which is in the repo and can be committed