Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC VCU TRD 2021.2 - Run and Build Flow

Owned by Sunil Vaghela (Unlicensed)

Last updated: Aug 18, 2022

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This page describes the detailed run and build flow for all the TRD components.

Table of Contents

1 1 Overview
2 2 Run Flow
- 2.1 2.1 Graphic User Interface
- 2.2 2.2 GStreamer Application (vcu_gst_app)
  - 2.2.1 2.2.1 Multi-stream
  - 2.2.2 2.2.2 Streaming
- 2.3 2.3 QoS Configuration
- 2.4 2.4 Mount Locations
3 3 Build Flow
- 3.1 3.1 Hardware Design
- 3.2 3.2 VCU PetaLinux BSP
- 3.3 3.3 VCU GST APP
- 3.4 3.4 VCU Qt APP
- 3.5 3.5 PCIe GST APP and LIB
4 4 Appendix A - Input Configuration File (input.cfg)
5 5 Appendix B - Rx/Tx Link-up and GStreamer Commands

1 Overview

For the overview, software tools, system requirements, design files, and board setup follow the link below:

Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC VCU TRD 2021.2

2 Run Flow

This section will describe the flow to run the pre-built images which each design module contains.

Set up the board as explained in “Board Setup” Section in link Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC VCU TRD 2021.2 Board Setup
Prepare the SD card. There are many options to format the SD Card in the windows tool. But, always format with FAT32 option. Use the SD Card Formatter tool to format the SD card, https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/

Please note that the Windows format option can't be used.

Copy all the files from the $TRD_HOME/images/<Path to Design Images>/ to FAT32 formatted SD card directory
Power on the board; make sure INIT_B, DONE and all power rail LEDs are lit green
After a successful boot, a shell prompt would appear as shown below.

root@zcu106_vcu_trd_multistream_video:~#

Now proceed with either GUI based application(Section 2.1) or command-line based