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.