The purpose of this page is to provide developers with information and links to collateral available for the Kria K26 SOM, including documentation, pre-built images, firmware updates, and GitHub repositories. It is meant to augment other official documentation found at the Kria SOM product page at Xilinx.com.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Xilinx Kria is a portfolio of System-On-Modules (SOMs) designed for edge applications in a variety of use cases and production settings. The K26C/I SOMs are meant to be integrated directly into a customers production design and the SOM Starter Kit (e.g. KV260) are an evaluation and early development platform. The Kria lineup simplifies and accelerates the system development, helping you get your product to market faster.

K26 SOM

The K26 system-on-module (SOM) is a production ready hardware platform. The K26 SOM is shipped without any preloaded FW or SW configurations in the non-volatile memory devices (QSPI and eMMC).

Starter Kits

Kria Starter Kits are intended to be used for initial evaluation and early development of the K26. They consist of the K26 SOM and an application focused carrier card. The Kria Starter Kits are shipped with a pre-loaded boot FW stored in the QSPI non-volatile memory device and a preset boot mode configuration of QSPI32. Details on QSPI memory configuration and content are outlined below. A common pre-built Kria Starter Kit Linux image is provided and is capable of booting on both KV260 and KR260. Pre-built applications are then made available over-the-air (OTA) via Linux package feeds. Details on the Kria Starter Kit Linux and example application install are outlined below.

KV260 Starter Kit

The KV260 is an evaluation kit based on the K26 SOM focused on vision applications.

KV260 Starter Kit

KV260 Starter Kit Interfaces

KR260 Starter Kit

The KR260 is an evaluation kit based on the K26 SOM focused on robotics and machine vision applications. The Kria Starter Kits are shipped with a pre-loaded boot FW stored in the QSPI non-volatile memory device and a preset boot mode configuration of QSPI32. Details on QSPI memory configuration and content are outlined below.

KR260 Starter Kit

KR260 Starter Kit Functional Interfaces

Both the K26 SOM and the KV260 Starter Kit are sold in encryption enabled (G) and encryption disabled (-ED) variants. This designation refers to the availability of the MPSoC hardened crypto block that enables the SHA and AES accelerator functions.

Getting Started

First time SOM Starter Kit users should refer to the on-line “Getting Started” guide for their kit:

• KV260 Vision Starter Kit Getting Started

• KR260 Robotics Starter Kit Getting Started

Developer Resources

The following section provides links to the product documentation, pre-built firmware and software binaries, and application examples that apply to the K26 SOM.

Documentation

• K26 Datasheet (DS987)

• KV260 Datasheet (DS986)

• KR260 Datasheet (DS988)

• KV260 User Guide (UG1089)

• KR260 User Guide (UG1092)

• Xilinx SOM Carrier Card Design Guide (UG1091)

Starter Kit Pre-Built Software

The SOM Starter Kits use a two stage boot process. The primary boot firmware is pre-installed at the factory on the QSPI device. The secondary boot device is an SD card containing the Linux kernel and Linux root filesystem (rootfs). The SD card images are available in the table below. When using pre-built applications from the Xilinx App Store you need to ensure to align your Starter Kit Linux version with the target application assumed Linux version.

Kria Starter Kit Linux

The Kria Starter Kits starting with the mid-May 2022 are supported with both Ubuntu 22.04 and PetaLinux. The Ubuntu 22.04 is the primary OS targeted by the Xilinx pre-built applications and out of box workflows. PetaLinux images and Yocto integrations are available to support users intending to target a custom embedded Linux during evaluation and production.

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

The following table outlines the Ubuntu images available for the Kria Starter Kit. For additional details on the Ubuntu support for Kria see the Xilinx Ubuntu Wiki.

PetaLinux

The following table outlines the PetaLinux based pre-built Linux images.

Boot Firmware Updates

The SOM Starter Kits have factory pre-programmed boot firmware that is installed and maintained in the SOM QSPI device. Occasionally firmware updates will be made available in the table below which can be updated from Linux using the “xmutil bootfw_update” on-target utility. The starter kits supports an A/B update mechanism to ensure that the platform has a known good fallback in the event of an issue during the upgrade process. The on-target utility will update the new boot firmware (BOOT.BIN file) into the non-active slot and then set the firmware to become active on the next boot cycle.

Accelerated Applications & Library Packages

The SOM Starter Kits use the Linux dnf package manager to deploy, update, and maintain the accelerated application (AA) and their supporting libraries. The xmutil “getpkgs” function provides an easy to use method to query and identify the packages applicable to the Starter Kit it is actively running on. The “getpkgs” uses normal dnf functionality which is supported and enabled by default in the SOM Starter Linux images. The AA documentation including install, getting started, and how to build is maintained on the Starter Kit documentation GitHub.

On-Target Utilities

The Kria runtime software provides a number of platform management helper utilities available under a common wrapper called “xmutil”. The following table summarizes these utilities which can be called using “xmutil <utility name>” in both Starter Kit Linux OS variants available.

Boot FW Update Process

Boot FW via xmutil

The SOM on-target management utility xmutil provides bootfw_update and bootfw_status utility for updating and checking the status of the boot FW from Linux.

Boot FW update with xmutil

The xmutil provides a utility to help in the update of the on-target boot firmware with the following steps:

1. Download the boot firmware update from the table above. It should be a Xilinx BOOT.BIN file.

2. Move the BOOT.BIN file to the SOM Starter Kit target using FTP (or similar method). Note when copying file remotely you must copy it to the petalinux user directory.

3. Execute “sudo xmutil bootfw_update -i <path to boot.bin>”.

4. After the image write is completed issue a power-on reset. This can be accomplished by pressing the RESET push-button or power cycling the board.

5. After restart it is required by the user verify that Linux fully boots with the new boot FW to verify functionality. This is completed by executing “sudo xmutil bootfw_update -v” to validate successful boot against the new firmware. Note this must be completed on the platform restart immediately following the update, else the platform will fall back to the other boot partition on the next restart.

Boot FW status with xmutil

The xmutil also provides a “bootfw_status” command which can be used to identify which image is active, which image was last booted, and what image is going to be booted on the next boot. The version information noted from bootfw_status represents the factory installed version and will not change when you update individual boot partitions.

Stand-alone FW Update & Recovery Utility

The K26 boot firmware is comprised of an “Image Selector” application, A/B MPSoC boot FW partitions, and an “Image Recovery” application. It is suggested for users to use the xmutil boot FW update tool as the primary boot FW update mechanism. If the user however gets to a state where they either want to reset the board to factory settings they can use the “Image Recovery Tool” which is a stand alone application for manually loading and configurating content of both A and B boot partitions.

The image recovery tool works in a similar manner to typical home router initial configuration with a static IP and web-server based tool which is used to directly update the A/B partitions and the persistent register states. This tool can be used to write the a factory BOOT.BIN image from the Starter Kit Boot FW table above to overwrite either image partition or both using the “Recover Image” function. The tool can also be used to modify the bootable state of each partition. If uploading a BOOT.BIN the tool will by default configure that partition to a “bootable” state.

The static IP is printed to the UART when the system is powered on with the FWUEN button pressed. For details on set-up and use of the Recovery Tool, See UG1089 for KV260 and UG1092 for KR260.

Boot FW QSPI Memory Map

The boot FW of the Kria Starter Kit is pre-loaded at time or production in the SOM QSPI memory. This device is intentionally isolated from the SD card to ensure that the board is always in a bootable state and SW developers can primarily focus on OS level updates and late bound loading of bitstreams. Sectors of the QSPI device are locked during production to prevent accidental overwrite in customer systems; with the only sectors that can be over-written are the A and B boot partitions discussed above and supported by the xmutil and Image Recovery tools. The QSPI memory map and read/write access is defined in the following table.

Xilinx Tools Support

PetaLinux Board Support Packages

PetaLinux Board Support Packages (BSP) include pre-built images and a pre-defined configuration to rebuild the images from scratch. The Kria K26 product is supported with two BSPs which are analogous to the “SOM” and “Starter Kit” hardware configurations outlined above. Be sure to use the BSP aligned with your selected tools version and target platform.

PetaLinux 2022.1 Release

The Kria SOM is supported in the PetaLinux 2022.1 release through an eSDK update captured under the 2022.1 PetaLinux Update 1, you need to ensure you upgrade your PetaLinux 2022.1 installation prior to using the Kria Starter Kit 2022.1 BSPs.

PetaLinux 2021.1 Release

The Kria SOM is supported in the PetaLinux 2021.1 release through an eSDK update captured under the 2021.1 PetaLinux Update 1, you need to ensure you upgrade your PetaLinux 2021.1 installation prior to using the Kria SOM and Starter Kit 2021.1 BSPs.

PetaLinux 2020.2.2 Release

The April 2020 SOM release is supported by a special release of the PetaLinux tool, version 2020.2.2. This version of PetaLinux is intended to only support the K26 SOM and Starter Kit. The 2020.2.2 SOM BSPs will only work with this specific version of the PetaLinux tool. The PetaLinux 2020.2.2 tool also must be installed with a full install method and not via the petalinux-upgrade function. See the PetaLinux 2020.2 downloads page for the Kria K26 Special Release information, PetaLinux installer, and support files.

Regenerating boot firmware from BSP

To generate a new boot firmware configuration that creates a new or custom “BOOT.BIN” start by following KV260 Starter Kit BSP build instructions at the KV260 GitHub.io documentation.

After building petalinux and generating a WIC image, enter below command to generate BOOT.BIN

You will find new boot firmware at /image/linux/BOOT.BIN. The new BOOT.BIN can be loaded to the Starter Kit using the xmutil bootfw_update utility described above

Vivado Board Support Packages

The K26 SOM is supported Vivado with three board files that automate the configuration of the SOM based peripherals. These board files are available on Xilinx’s GitHub Board Store and are supported in Vivado 2020.2.2 or later. Please make sure to use the correct released version corresponding to your chosen BSP/tool version.

• K26C SOM - Commercial grade K26 SOM.

• K26I SOM - Industrial grade K26 SOM.

• KV260 Starter Kit - K26 based Starter Kit SOM with Vision AI Carrier Card connector interface.

• KR260 Starter Kit - K26 based Starter Kit SOM with Robotics Carrier Card connector interface.

Vitis Platforms

A Vitis platform defines the physical peripherals implemented in the FPGA. As the SOM itself is application agnostic and FPGA peripherals are implemented on the carrier card, the Xilinx provided references focus on the SOM Starter Kits.

The KV260 Starter Kit Vitis Platforms and example overlays are available in the KV260 Vitis GitHub. The platform names describe the physical functionality that they enable on the carrier card. As the KV260 carrier card uses a DP/HDMI splitter the platform names including “DP” functionally enable both DisplayPort and HDMI.

• kv260_isp_MipiRx_vcu_DP - Implements: AP1302 ISP receive interface, VCU encode & decode functions, DisplayPort video output

• kv260_vcuDecode_vmixDP - Implements: VCU decode only, video mixer + DisplayPort video output

• kv260_ispMipiRx_vmixDP - Implements: AP1302 ISP receive interface, video mixer + DisplayPort video output

• kv260_ispMipiRx_DP - Implements: AP1302 ISP receive interface, DisplayPort video output

Kria Accelerated Applications

KV260 Application Documentation

The KV260 applications are captured in the Kria KV260 Docs repository.

KV260 Accelerated Applications

The source code for the KV260 Accelerated Applications are captured in independent repositories:

• Smart Camera - https://github.com/Xilinx/smartcam

• AI Box-ReID - https://github.com/Xilinx/aibox-reid

• Defect Detection - https://github.com/Xilinx/defect-detect

SOM Utilities

The KV260 and KR260 Starter Kits use a number of on-target utilities that may be useful in your design.

• linux-image-update

  • Description - Linux utility for updating A/B boot firmware partitions of primary boot device.

  • Repository - https://github.com/Xilinx/linux-image_update/

• axi-qos

  • Description - Linux utility for on-target adjustment AXI interface quality-of-service.

  • Repository - https://github.com/Xilinx/axi-qos

• ddr-qos

  • Description - Linux utility for on-target adjustment PS subsystem DDR4 interface quality-of-service.

  • Repository - https://github.com/Xilinx/ddr-qos

• platformstats

  • Description - Linux utility for collecting platform statistics including die temperature, CPU speed, power utilization, etc.

  • Repository - https://github.com/Xilinx/platformstats

• xmutil

  • Description - Linux front-end utility focused on embedded platforms and SOM Starter Kits.

  • Repository - https://github.com/Xilinx/xmutil

• image-recovery

  • Description - Stand-alone application using web-server for boot firmware recovery.

  • Repository - https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/tree/master/lib/sw_apps/img_rcvry

• image-selector

  • Description - Stand-alone application used to implement A/B firmware selection at MPSoC boot.

  • Repository - https://github.com/Xilinx/embeddedsw/tree/master/lib/sw_apps/imgsel

• som-dashboard

  • Decription - GUI based dashboard displaying information from platformstats, and basic application downloading, loading and unloading cockpit

  • Repository - https://github.com/Xilinx/SOM-Dashboard

• resize-part

  • Description: expand partition tool in default BSP to expose full SD card space for Linux partition

  • Repository - https://github.com/Xilinx/meta-petalinux/tree/master/recipes-apps/resize-part

Custom & Production SOM FW/SW Design Guidance

SOM Firmware

This section captures guidance on FW configurations that a Kria SOM should be aware of when creating custom firmware and carrier card designs.

MPSoC PMU FW

The MPSoC PMU is used to implement the platform interactions with the SOM power management ICs. Given this coupling between the SOM HW design and PMU FW there are a few PMU controlled MIO signals that require special handling or design considerations. For details on MPSoC FW implementation see the PMU Firmware Wiki.

• MIO31 - SHUTDOWN: The PMU has an optional input pin for an external platform shutdown request (e.g. carrier card push-button). The default mapping for this functionality in PMU FW is to PMU GPI pin MIO31.

• MIO34 - PS_PWR_EN: The PMU controls the PS_PWR_EN signal, which is used during shutdown of the platform to disable the power supplies. The PMU GPO2 signal is used to control to physical pin MIO34, which is connected to the SOM PS_PWR_EN signal. The SOM design has a 10kohm pull-up resistor on the signal, but as part of the boot process and the MPSoC dynamic MIO pin selection a developer needs to ensure that they set PMU build time configuration CONNECT_PMU_GPO_2_VAL= 0 . Without this setting there is potential of a glitch on the PS_PWR_EN signal. Details are captured at this Xilinx AR-71952.

• MIO35 - External WD: The PMU has an optional feature for having PMU interact with an external watch-dog (WD). The default mapping for this functionality in PMU FW is to PMU GPO pin MIO35. This is implemented using the PMU FW build-time flag ENABLE_RUNTIME_EXTWDT.

• Runtime Temperature OT: The PMU has an optional feature of implementing an over-temperature monitoring, using the MPSoC SysMon as the temperature feedback. This is implemented using the PMU FW build-time flag ENABLE_RUNTIME_OVERTEMP.

Known Issues

• Linux hang while installing watchdog packages using dnf

• Xmutil load/unload app can stop working if Jupyter notebook left in running state

Related Links

• Product page - https://www.xilinx.com/products/som/kria.html

• KV260 Getting Started page - https://www.xilinx.com/products/som/kria/kv260-vision-starter-kit/kv260-getting-started/getting-started.html

• KV260 Apps documentation - https://xilinx.github.io/kria-apps-docs/

• Kria App Store - https://www.xilinx.com/products/app-store/kria/smart-camera.html