nextpnr-xilinx

Installation instructions for Nextpnr-xilinx with Digilent Arty A7-100t with Xilinx Artix7 100T

Use of the automated install scripts recommended

Setting up new debootstrap and chroot into it

Run the following if you wish to isolate the nextpnr-xilinx build from other software (reproducible builds) or use the schroot auto-preparation script here: https://git.libre-soc.org/?p=dev-env-setup.git;a=blob;f=mk-deb-chroot;hb=HEAD

export MY_CHROOT=/stable-chroot
mkdir $MY_CHROOT
debootstrap buster $MY_CHROOT http://deb.debian.org/debian/
mount -t proc proc $MY_CHROOT/proc
mount -t sysfs sysfs $MY_CHROOT/sys
mount -t devpts devpts $MY_CHROOT/dev/pts/
chroot $MY_CHROOT /bin/bash

Download neccessary softwares

apt-get install -y libcurl3-gnutls/buster git/buster

git clone https://github.com/f4pga/prjxray.git
git clone https://github.com/SymbiFlow/prjxray-db.git
git clone https://github.com/gatecat/nextpnr-xilinx.git

Steps to compile prjxray

Necessary software to install

apt-get install -y build-essential make cmake python3 python3-dev \
 python3-setuptools python3-numpy cython3 python3-pip

pip3 install textx fasm

Build prjxray

cd prjxray
git checkout 18b92012afe2b03f3f975a78c4372c74b60dca0c
git submodule update --init --recursive
mkdir build; cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/nextpnr-xilinx ..
make -j$(nproc)
make install
install -d -m 0755 /usr/local/nextpnr-xilinx/build/tools
install -m 0755 tools/{bitread,bittool,frame_address_decoder,gen_part_base_yaml,segmatch,xc7frames2bit,xc7patch} \
 /usr/local/nextpnr-xilinx/build/tools
cd ..
cp -dpr utils /usr/local/nextpnr-xilinx
sed -i -e '/^# Vivado /,$d' \
 /usr/local/nextpnr-xilinx/utils/environment.sh
python3 setup.py develop
export PATH=/usr/local/nextpnr-xilinx/bin:$PATH
cd ..

Steps to compile prjxray-db

Install prjxray-db

cd prjxray-db
git archive --format=tar --prefix=database/ \
  0a0addedd73e7e4139d52a6d8db4258763e0f1f3 | \
  tar -C /usr/local/nextpnr-xilinx -xf -
cd ..

Steps to compile nextpnr-xilinx

Necessary software to install

apt-get install -y libboost-thread-dev libboost-iostreams-dev \
 libboost-program-options-dev libeigen3-dev libboost-python-dev \
 libboost-filesystem-dev

Build nextpnr-xilinx

cd nextpnr-xilinx
git checkout 565588a69ea95a52f7c7592f4ed81d9bef6cfb60
cmake -DARCH=xilinx -DBUILD_GUI=OFF -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local/nextpnr-xilinx .
make -j$(nproc)
make install
python3 xilinx/python/bbaexport.py --device xc7a100tcsg324-1 \
 --bba xilinx/xc7a100t.bba
./bbasm --l xilinx/xc7a100t.bba xilinx/xc7a100t.bin
install -d -m 0755 /usr/local/nextpnr-xilinx/share/xilinx
install -m 0755 xilinx/xc7a100t.bin \
 /usr/local/nextpnr-xilinx/share/xilinx
export XRAY_DIR=/usr/local/nextpnr-xilinx

# build attosoc example; it should build attosoc.bit as final bitstream

cd xilinx/examples
cp -dpr arty-a35 arty-a100
cd arty-a100
sed -i -e 's@xc7a35tcsg324-1@xc7a100tcsg324-1@g' \
 -e 's@../../../nextpnr-xilinx@nextpnr-xilinx@g' \
 -e 's@../../xc7a35t.bin@/usr/local/nextpnr-xilinx/share/xilinx/xc7a100t.bin@g' \
 attosoc.sh
./attosoc.sh

# see file attosoc.bit; it is the bitstream file and if built then success