Free to use, installable python package: https://github.com/dimitsev/sinara-firmware-compiler

Summary: You write a few python lists that specify what Sinara crates you have and how they are connected into Sinara systems and then https://github.com/dimitsev/sinara-firmware-compiler generates:

  • For all crates: system_description.json, boot.bin, the Vivado build logs, an extended build_info.json
  • For all systems: device_db.py, dev_map.bin, dev_map.txt

This python package gives you more freedom than M-Labs' firmware subscription service because you choose every single thing by yourself:

  • All parameters of the system description files.
  • What exact commit numbers to use in your local artiq/artiq-zynq repos.

If you don't need that much freedom, then M-Labs' firmware subscription service is obviously superior because you don't need to sink time into installing Vivado and into getting used to this python package.

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    dtsevas What exact commit numbers to use in your local artiq/artiq-zynq repos.

    afws_client --rev also lets you select a commit ID. Not for Zynq currently but this will be fixed after the firmware merge.