Getting Started PTB

Superfast flow

The PTB stores the bitstream, embedded software and a bootloader on a flash memory. A power cycle will not reset this. Thus, one can use the PTB by simply turning in on. By checking the serial debug output, one can check if the correct version is running.

1. (Optional) Start debugging stream. Shows messages from embedded system once programmed.

2. Power on board

The serial debug window should have something like the following output:

$ make serial

Getting Started

1. Fetch changes from upstream repo

2. Checkout tag of your select release. See releases. This guide assumes PTB-v3.1-beta3

$ git checkout PTB-v3.1-beta3

3. Make sure repo is clean

4. Get pre-built bitstream.

$ make get_latest_bitstream TAG=PTB-v3.1-beta3

5. Build embedded software

$ make sdk_gen_projects PRJ=PTB

6. (Optional) Open a new terminal window and start debugging stream. Shows messages from embedded system once programmed.

$ make serial

7. Power on board

8. Generate bootloader and program flash

$ make gen_bootimage
$ make program_flash

9. Restart PTB

The serial debug window should have something like the following output: