Jetson Sensor Processing Engine (SPE) Developer Guide

r36.2 Release

Compiling and Flashing

This Document describes the steps to build and flash this project

TOOLCHAIN PREREQUISITE

You must download the external Toolchain. NVIDIA does not distribute this toolchain.

gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2018-q2-update:

https://developer.arm.com/-/media/Files/downloads/gnu-rm/7-2018q2/gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2018-q2-update-linux.tar.bz2?revision=bc2c96c0-14b5-4bb4-9f18-bceb4050fee7?product=GNU%20Arm%20Embedded%20Toolchain,64-bit,,Linux,7-2018-q2-update

BUILD

Set the appropriate paths for the below variables:

export SPE_FREERTOS_BSP=<path to root directory where rt-aux-cpu-demo-fsp, fsp and freertos source directories reside>
export CROSS_COMPILE=<path to installed cross compiler>/gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2018-q2-update/bin/arm-none-eabi-
cd ${SPE_FREERTOS_BSP}/rt-aux-cpu-demo-fsp

To build firmware for a specific platform

Build firmware for t23x:

make bin_t23x

@note Build speed is significantly faster by using the `-j <jobs>` option with `make`.
For example, `make -j16 bin_t23x`.
## To build doxygen documents
Make sure you have doxygen installed on your computer. For Ubuntu systems:

sudo apt-get install doxygen

To generate the documents:

make docs

The output can be found at `out/docs`.
## To build everything

make

or

make all

The above commands build all the targets i.e. spe firmware binaries for all the
SOCs and Doxygen documents.
## Build artifacts
The built SPE firmware binary can be found at `out/<soc>/spe.bin`.
The doxygen build generates `out/docs/index.html` file. Open it
using a browser to navigate the documentation.
## To clean the build artifacts
Clean everything (documentation and firmware):

make clean

To clean t23x only firmware objects and build artifacts:

make clean_t23x

To clean only doxygen generated files:

make clean_docs

# FLASH
1. Back up the original `spe_t234.bin` located in the
following directory:

Linux_for_Tegra/bootloader/

2. Copy the generated `out/<soc>/spe.bin` to the following locating, depending on your target.
- For the T234 SoC, copy it to:

Linux_for_Tegra/bootloader/spe_t234.bin

The `Linux_for_Tegra` directory is part of the extracted L4T build that
you used to flash the Jetson device.
3. Use the command below to just flash only the spe-fw partition:

sudo ./flash.sh -k A_spe-fw <T234 SoC based Jetson platforms> internal ```