mcu_tools

various tools for the boot loader.

• sflash: utility for loading the MCU firmware via UART
• minicomlogging: check statuses of a CM board on a given apollo blade via a tty device.

minicomlogging

requirments

• Python 2.7+
• pyserial (for accessing a serial port of a tty device)

instructions

Dump outputs from minicom to data/dump_*.txt. (note that the following commands are called implicitly by automate eyescan scripts in CU production script repo)

$ timestamp="$(date '+day-%d_time-%H.%M.%S')" 
$ python minicom_commands_dump_to_txt.py $ttyname $apollonumber $timestamp

example 1:

$ timestamp="$(date '+day-%d_time-%H.%M.%S')" 
$ python minicom_commands_dump_to_txt.py ttyUL1 09 $timestamp

Evaluation of FPGAs' statuses is still a work-in-progress, though we used to have check_tty_status.py with a fixed reference from Apollo09 for that.