.img PYNQ 2.7 for Alinx AX7020

Support
1 
Hello.

I have an Alinx AX7020 board and an SD card with PYNQ version 2.4 and Python version 3.6.

This is a very old version of python and I would like to upgrade to at least 3.8 in the new PYNQ version 2.6 image for my board.

I tried to record an image that I found on the official website for the Z2 board (since the same SoC is used). But my board doesn't even boot from it (I use PuTTY).

Tell me, friends, does anyone have a ready-made PYNQ 2.7 image compiled specifically for the AX7020 board?
Help, please, I'm a beginner, but it's very interesting to try working in Python with an FPGA.
4

Hi @Juletta

Welcome to the PYNQ community!

PYNQ v2.4 is quite old at this point, and I wouldn’t recommend using it. The latest version of PYNQ is v3.1, which uses Python 3.10.

I’m not familiar with this Alinx board, but it should be possible to build a newer image for it yourself using the information in this forum and the PYNQ documentation.

5

Hello,

I have had sucess creating PYNQ 2.7 and 3.1 on Alinx boards. Please refer to this two forum discussions:

Custom board image building for HTG-ZRF16 - #4 by crispy245 How to get the BSP for PYNQ (using only the .xsa gave some issues)
Adding PYNQ to an existing Petalinux build on a new board without BSP - #2 by joshgoldsmith Please refer to @joshgoldsmith guide. It helped me out greatly.

Lastly, it seems that many of us with Alinx boards want to move into Pynq but been having issues around it. I will try to create some sort of automated way to create images for new boards since it isn’t hard per-se (plus the PYNQ team does help out) but has a lot of caveats one must be aware.

Let me know if you need any support,

Best,

Aldo.

3 Likes
6

Hello, friend! J

I contacted the guys from Alinx technical support and explained my problem. And these cool guys sent me a ready-made PYNQ 3.1.2 image for my board in a couple of weeks!

I think they won’t mind if I share the link with the community.

Dropbox link below contains image and vivado project, no document. You could well program image into SD card, insert it on board then boot SD mode.