Quick Start Guide

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This article demonstrates:

  • Armino code and toolchain download

  • Setup software development environment

  • How to configure Armino project

  • How to build the project and flash the bin to board

Preparation

Hardware：

  • BK7236 Demo board

  • BKFIL.exe

  • PC（Windows & Ubuntu）

!Note:

Armino only supports compiling on Linux platform and firmware burning on Windows platform. Therefore, we need two computers, one Linux platform and one Windows platform. Of course, we can also install Linux virtual machine on Windows platform only

Software：

  • GCC ARM tool chain, used to compile BK7236

  • Build tools, including CMake

  • Armino source code

  • BKFIL.exe

Introdection to Development Board

Click the following link to learn more about the development boards supported by Armino:

Armino SDK Code download

We can download Armino from gitlab:

mkdir -p ~/armino
cd ~/armino
git clone http://gitlab.bekencorp.com/wifi/armino_dev.git

Note

  1. The gitlab always has the latest Armino code, only authorised account can download the code. Please contact the your BK7236 project owner to get relevant accounts.

  2. On the other hand, Github only has the stable Armino code.

Setup Build Environment

Note

Armino, currently supports compiling in Linux environment. This chapter willtake Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

as an example to introduce the construction of the entire compiling environment.

Tool Chain Installation

Click 下载 to download the BK7236 toolchain.

After downloading the tool kit, decompress it to ‘/opt/’:

$ sudo tar -zxvf downloads/gnu-rm/9-2020q2/gcc-arm-none-eabi-9-2020-q2-update-x86_64-linux.tar.bz2 -C /

Note

Tool chain the default path is configured in the middleware/soc/bk7236/bk7236.defconfig, you can modify CONFIG_TOOLCHAIN_PATH to set to your owner toolchain path:

CONFIG_TOOLCHAIN_PATH=”/opt/gcc-arm-none-eabi-9-2020-q2-update/bin”

Depended libraries installation

Enter the following command in the terminal to install pythonCMakeNinja:

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake python3 python3-pip doxygen ninja-build libc6:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libncurses5-dev lib32z1 -y

Document Compilation Dependent Library Installation

Click Doc you can get the latest Armino documents. So you don’t need to build the document youself.

If you really need to build the documents, following python3 packages are required:

sudo pip3 install sphinx_rtd_theme future breathe blockdiag sphinxcontrib-seqdiag sphinxcontrib-actdiag sphinxcontrib-nwdiag sphinxcontrib.blockdiag

If you default Python is Python2, please set it to Python3:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/python

Build The Project

Run following commands to build BK7236 verify project:

cd ~/armino
make bk7236 PROJECT=verify/spe

Another way to build BK7236 verify project is:

cd ~/armino/project/verify
make s

The above build method are equal.

The verify project startup:

  • WiFi/BLE

  • Common pheripheral driver

  • Armino default Cli

Note

BK7236 is in developing stage, currently it only supports verify project. Please use verify project to demo BK7236.

Configuration project

We can also use the project configuration file for differentiated configuration:

Project Profile Override Chip Profile Override Default Configuration
Example： bk7236.config >> bk7236.defconfig >> KConfig
+ Example of project configuration file：
    projects/app/config/bk7236.config
+ Sample chip configuration file：
    middleware/soc/bk7236/bk7236.defconfig
+ Sample KConfig configuration file：
    middleware/arch/cm33/Kconfig
    components/bk_cli/Kconfig

New project

The default project is projects/app. For new projects, please refer to projects/harmony project

Burn Code

On the Windows platform, Armino currently supports UART burning.

!note:

Armino supports UART burning. It is recommended to use the CH340 serial port tool board to download.

Serial port burning tool is shown in the figure below:

Uart

UART

Download burning tools (BKFILL.exe)：

http://dl.bekencorp.com/tools/flash/ Get the latest version in this directory. Ex：BEKEN_BKFIL_V2.0.7.5_20221220.zip

The snapshot of BKFILL.exe downloading.

BKFIL GUI

BKFIL GUI

Burn the serial port UART1, click Download to burn the image, and then power down and restart the device after burning.

Serial port Log and Command Line

Currently the BK7236 use the UART1 as the Log output and Cli input; You can get the supported command list through the help command.