S1 Thermal Camera Demo

This is an example project demonstrating use of the FPGA to read a sensor, and send the data over to a web app using BLE. You can find the corresponding code in the folders verilog-code, c-code, and web-code.

Photo of device with labels

MLX90640 <--I2C--> iCE40 <--SPI--> nRF52811 <--BLE--> web app

Build and Flash

To build and flash the application, you need to do the following steps. The easiest way is to run

cp .vscode/tasks_template.jsonc .vscode/tasks.json

and run the corresponding tasks from VSCode. Make sure the path variables point to the right install locations for your machine.

Build FPGA binary:

make build-verilog NRF_SDK_PATH={YOUR_NRF_SDK_PATH} GNU_INSTALL_ROOT={YOUR_GNU_INSTALL_ROOT}

Build nRF binary:

make NRF_SDK_PATH={YOUR_NRF_SDK_PATH} GNU_INSTALL_ROOT={YOUR_GNU_INSTALL_ROOT}

Flash Softdevice:

make flash-s112-softdevice NRF_SDK_PATH={YOUR_NRF_SDK_PATH} GNU_INSTALL_ROOT={YOUR_GNU_INSTALL_ROOT}

Flash nRF with FPGA binary:

In the Makefile, comment out the line CFLAGS += -DBLUETOOTH_ENABLED. This selects the main function main_fpga_flasher_app() which writes the FPGA binary from onboard flash into external flash. We need to this because there is not enough space on the onboard flash of the nRF chip for both the S112 Softdevice and the FPGA binary. In your application, you can choose to upload the FPGA binary over BLE instead.

Flash nRF chip:

Uncomment CFLAGS += -DBLUETOOTH_ENABLED from the Makefile

make flash NRF_SDK_PATH={YOUR_NRF_SDK_PATH} GNU_INSTALL_ROOT={YOUR_GNU_INSTALL_ROOT}

Run web app:

Open web-code/index.html in Chrome. Click the "Connect" buttons and select the S1-Module from the popup menu.

That's it! The device will begin streaming and you should see something like this

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