Firmware and FPGA

Description

These functions provide the ability to load and program devices on the bladeRF board.

Care should be taken with bootloader recovery functions to ensure that devices operated on are indeed a bladeRF, as opposed to another FX3-based device running in bootloader mode.

These functions are thread-safe.

Functions
API_EXPORT int CALL_CONV	bladerf_flash_firmware (struct bladerf *dev, const char *firmware)
API_EXPORT int CALL_CONV	bladerf_load_fpga (struct bladerf *dev, const char *fpga)
API_EXPORT int CALL_CONV	bladerf_flash_fpga (struct bladerf *dev, const char *fpga_image)
API_EXPORT int CALL_CONV	bladerf_erase_stored_fpga (struct bladerf *dev)
API_EXPORT int CALL_CONV	bladerf_device_reset (struct bladerf *dev)
API_EXPORT int CALL_CONV	bladerf_get_fw_log (struct bladerf *dev, const char *filename)
API_EXPORT int CALL_CONV	bladerf_jump_to_bootloader (struct bladerf *dev)
API_EXPORT int CALL_CONV	bladerf_get_bootloader_list (struct bladerf_devinfo **list)
API_EXPORT int CALL_CONV	bladerf_load_fw_from_bootloader (const char *device_identifier, bladerf_backend backend, uint8_t bus, uint8_t addr, const char *file)

Function Documentation

bladerf_device_reset()

API_EXPORT int CALL_CONV bladerf_device_reset

(

struct bladerf *

dev

)

Reset the device, causing it to reload its firmware from flash

Parameters

dev	Device handle

Returns

0 on success, value from Error codes list on failure

bladerf_erase_stored_fpga()

API_EXPORT int CALL_CONV bladerf_erase_stored_fpga

(

struct bladerf *

dev

)

Erase the FPGA region of SPI flash, effectively disabling FPGA autoloading

Parameters

dev	Device handle

Returns

0 on success, value from Error codes list on failure

bladerf_flash_firmware()

API_EXPORT int CALL_CONV bladerf_flash_firmware	(	struct bladerf *	dev,
		const char *	firmware )

Write FX3 firmware to the bladeRF's SPI flash

Note

This will require a power cycle to take effect

Parameters

	dev	Device handle
[in]	firmware	Full path to firmware file

Returns

0 on success, value from Error codes list on failure

bladerf_flash_fpga()

API_EXPORT int CALL_CONV bladerf_flash_fpga	(	struct bladerf *	dev,
		const char *	fpga_image )

Write the provided FPGA image to the bladeRF's SPI flash and enable FPGA loading from SPI flash at power on (also referred to within this project as FPGA "autoloading").

Parameters

	dev	Device handle
[in]	fpga_image	Full path to FPGA file

Returns

0 on success, value from Error codes list on failure

bladerf_get_bootloader_list()

API_EXPORT int CALL_CONV bladerf_get_bootloader_list

(

struct bladerf_devinfo **

list

)

Get a list of devices that are running the FX3 bootloader.

After obtaining this list, identify the device that you would like to load firmware onto. Save the bus and address values so that you can provide them to bladerf_load_fw_from_bootloader(), and then free this list via bladerf_free_device_list().

Parameters

[out]

list

Upon finding devices, this will be updated to point to a list of bladerf_devinfo structures that describe the identified devices.

Returns

Number of items populated in list, or an error value from the Error codes list on failure

bladerf_get_fw_log()

API_EXPORT int CALL_CONV bladerf_get_fw_log	(	struct bladerf *	dev,
		const char *	filename )

Read firmware log data and write it to the specified file

Parameters

	dev	Device to read firmware log from
[in]	filename	Filename to write log information to. If set to NULL, log data will be printed to stdout.

Returns

0 upon success, or a value from Error codes list on failure

bladerf_jump_to_bootloader()

API_EXPORT int CALL_CONV bladerf_jump_to_bootloader

(

struct bladerf *

dev

)

Clear out a firmware signature word in flash and jump to FX3 bootloader.

The device will continue to boot into the FX3 bootloader across power cycles until new firmware is written to the device.

Parameters

dev	Device handle

Returns

0 on success, value from Error codes list on failure

bladerf_load_fpga()

API_EXPORT int CALL_CONV bladerf_load_fpga	(	struct bladerf *	dev,
		const char *	fpga )

Load device's FPGA.

Note

This FPGA configuration will be reset at the next power cycle.

Parameters

	dev	Device handle
[in]	fpga	Full path to FPGA bitstream

Returns

0 upon successfully, or a value from Error codes list on failure

bladerf_load_fw_from_bootloader()

API_EXPORT int CALL_CONV bladerf_load_fw_from_bootloader	(	const char *	device_identifier,
		bladerf_backend	backend,
		uint8_t	bus,
		uint8_t	addr,
		const char *	file )

Download firmware to the specified device that is enumarating an FX3 bootloader, and begin executing the firmware from RAM.

Note

This function does not write the firmware to SPI flash. If this is desired, open the newly enumerated device with bladerf_open() and use bladerf_flash_firmware().

Parameters

[in]	device_identifier	Device identifier string describing the backend to use via the <backend>:device=<bus>:<addr> syntax. If this is NULL, the backend, bus, and addr arguments will be used instead.
[in]	backend	Backend to use. This is only used if device_identifier is NULL.
[in]	bus	Bus number the device is located on. This is only used if device_identifier is NULL.
[in]	addr	Bus address the device is located on. This is only used if device_identifier is NULL.
[in]	file	Filename of the firmware image to boot

Returns

0 on success, value from Error codes list on failure