EOS-S3 Thing+ Notes 5/10/2023

This post is part of a series of notes I originally recorded on a GitLab wiki for our QuitetThing project with can be found here: 

https://gitlab.com/mccormjf/quietthing/-/wikis/home 

I am posting here for increased visibility and archival purposes.


When building using ql_symbiflow, the dump command means it creates the files you list in the command, not that it wont create those. To get a .bin file you include -dump binary. Further information is at this link:

https://quicklogic-quicklogic-fpga-toolchain.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/tutorial/eos-s3/GeneratetheBinaryFile.html

We also have a BGA package chip which is symbolized by using -P PD64 in symbiflow

We started using F4PGA which is what the F4PGA docker file installs, but we weren't able to get the f4pga-examples version of btn_counter to work on the board.

We started running the f4pga arch defs repo from https://github.com/f4pga/f4pga-arch-defs/tree/main/quicklogic

They have an env setup script that sets up a conda environment. It didnt get activated automatically when I tried it but you can activate it using: source activate /f4pga-arch-defs/env/conda/envs/f4pga_arch_def_base or type conda info --envs and find the env that looks similar to the previous statement.

We added nano and vim to the docker container because there didnt seem to be a text editor in the container already. We also setup a shared folder to save file onto the host computer from the docker. Use the following command when running the docker image:

docker run -v $PWD/builds:/builds -it [name of image]

This assumes you have a folder called builds in your current working directory and it will connect to a folder called builds in the root directory of the container.

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