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Installation Instructions
Workshop Materials
Clone and change into the workshop git repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/ferrous-systems/embedded-trainings-2020.git
$ cd embedded-trainings-2020
The workshop repository contains all workshop materials, i.e. code snippets, custom tools and the source for this handbook.
All programming will take place in its beginner/
and advanced/
subfolders.
VS Code
Windows: Go to https://code.visualstudio.com and run the installer.
Linux: Follow the instructions for your distribution on https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/linux.
macOS: Go to https://code.visualstudio.com and click on "Download for Mac"
OS specific dependencies
Linux only: USB
Some of our tools depend on pkg-config
and libudev.pc
. Ensure you have the proper packages installed; on Debian based distributions you can use:
$ sudo apt-get install libudev-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev
To access the USB devices as a non-root user, follow these steps:
- (Optional) Connect the dongle and check its permissions with these commands:
$ lsusb -d 1915:521f
Bus 001 Device 016: ID 1915:521f Nordic Semiconductor ASA USB Billboard
$ # ^ ^^
$ # take note of the bus and device numbers that appear for you when run the next command
$ ls -l /dev/bus/usb/001/016
crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 189, 15 May 20 12:00 /dev/bus/usb/001/016
The root root
part in crw-rw-r-- 1 root root
indicates the device can only be accessed by the root
user.
- Create the following file with the displayed contents. You'll need root permissions to create the file.
$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/50-oxidize-global.rules
# udev rules to allow access to USB devices as a non-root user
# nRF52840 Dongle in bootloader mode
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1915", ATTRS{idProduct}=="521f", TAG+="uaccess"
# nRF52840 Dongle applications
ATTRS{idVendor}=="2020", TAG+="uaccess"
# nRF52840 Development Kit
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1366", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1015", TAG+="uaccess"
- Run the following command to make the new udev rules effective
$ sudo udevadm control --reload-rules
- (Optional) Disconnect and reconnect the dongle. Then check its permissions again.
$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 017: ID 1915:521f Nordic Semiconductor ASA 4-Port USB 2.0 Hub
$ ls -l /dev/bus/usb/001/017
crw-rw-r--+ 1 root root 189, 16 May 20 12:11 /dev/bus/usb/001/017
The +
part in crw-rw-r--+
indicates the device can be accessed without root
permissions.
Windows only: Zadig JLink driver
On Windows you'll need to associate the nRF52840 Development Kit's USB device to the WinUSB driver.
To do that connect the nRF52840 DK to your PC using micro-USB port J2 (as done before) then download and run the Zadig tool.
In Zadig's graphical user interface,
-
Select the 'List all devices' option from the Options menu at the top.
-
From the device (top) drop down menu select "BULK interface (Interface 2)"
-
Once that device is selected,
1366 1015
should be displayed in the USB ID field. That's the Vendor ID - Product ID pair. -
Select 'WinUSB' as the target driver (right side)
-
Click "Install WinUSB driver". The process may take a few minutes to complete.
You do not need to do anything for the nRF52840 Dongle device.
Rust and tooling
Base Rust installation
Go to https://rustup.rs and follow the instructions.
Windows: Do install the optional components of the C++ build tools package. The installation size may take up to 2 GB of disk space.
Rust Analyzer
All: Open VS Code and look for Rust Analyzer in the marketplace (bottom icon in the left panel). Then install it.
Windows: It's OK to ignore the message about git
not being installed, if you get one!
Better TOML
All: For better handling of Cargo.toml
files, we recommend you install Better TOML if you're using VS Code.
Rust Cross compilation support
All: Run this command in a terminal:
$ rustup +stable target add thumbv7em-none-eabihf
ELF analysis tools
All: Run these commands in a terminal:
$ cargo install cargo-binutils
$ rustup +stable component add llvm-tools-preview
General purpose tools
Install the flip-link
and probe-run
tools using the following Cargo commands:
$ cargo install probe-run
(..)
Installed package `probe-run v0.1.8` (..)
$ cargo install flip-link
(..)
Installed package `flip-link v0.1.2` (..)
Python
Windows: Go to https://www.python.org/downloads/ and run the Python 3 installer
- in the installer check the "add Python 3.x to PATH" box
- also run the "Disable path length limit" action at the end, if you are on Windows 10 and the option is displayed to you
Linux: Install pip
using the package manager; this will also install Python.
$ # If you're using Arch Linux
$ sudo pacman -S python-pip
$ # If you're using Ubuntu
$ sudo apt-get install python3-pip
macOS: Ensure that you have python 3 and pip installed. Refer to the following link for Instructions on how to install python 3 and pip
$ python --version
Python 3.7.7
$ pip --version
pip 20.0.2 from /usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip (python 3.7)
nrf tools
nrfutil
All: Open a terminal and install nrfutil as follows. If you are familiar with python, it is advised to do this in a virtual environment.
$ pip install nrfutil
(..)
$ nrfutil version
nrfutil version 6.1.0
NOTE as of version 6.1.0 nrfutil indicates that it does "not" support Python 3.9 in its pip manifest. Due to this, the above pip install
command will fail if you have a Python 3.9 interpreter installed. Here's how to work around the issue:
start of nrfutil python 3.9 workaround
$ # these steps can also be done via a graphical interface
$ # fetch the source code of version 6.1.0
$ # or instead of curl you can enter the URL into your web browser
$ curl -LO https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/pc-nrfutil/archive/v6.1.zip
$ # unzip the code
$ unzip v6.1.zip
$ # go into the new folder
$ cd pc-nrfutil-6.1
Apply the following 2 patches (can also be done manually by editing these 2 files: requirements.txt
and setup.py
)
--- a/requirements.txt 2021-01-05 10:50:12.611556607 +0100
+++ b/requirements.txt 2021-01-05 10:50:09.718226891 +0100
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
ecdsa
intelhex
libusb1
-pc_ble_driver_py >= 0.14.2
+# pc_ble_driver_py >= 0.14.2
piccata
protobuf
pyserial
--- a/setup.py 2021-01-05 10:49:56.014910707 +0100
+++ b/setup.py 2021-01-05 10:50:26.004873175 +0100
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@
'../libusb/x86/libusb-1.0.dll', '../libusb/x64/libusb-1.0.dll',
'../libusb/x64/libusb-1.0.dylib', '../libusb/LICENSE']
},
- python_requires='>=3.6, <3.9',
+ python_requires='>=3.6, <3.10',
install_requires=reqs,
zipfile=None,
tests_require=[
$ patch -p1 < requirements.patch
$ patch -p1 < setup.patch
Then install the patched nrfutil
$ pip install .
$ # verify installation
$ nrfutil version
nrfutil version 6.1.0
end of nrfutil python 3.9 workaround