How to build my mikroPhone

Follow these instructions to build and assemble the device and to build and upload both FE310 and ESP32 firmware.

1 Build a device

You need to make and assemble two PCBs — main board and display adapter

Original KiCad design files can be found in source code repository (see below, step 5)

2 Assemble

To assemble the phone you will need:

Locate DISPLAY connector at the bootom side of the board and connect display adapter board to it:

display adapter

Connect display panel to J2 and J3 connectors on display adapter board:

display panel

Insert cellular modem into mini PCIe connector:

modem

Locate BAT connector at the bootom side of the board and connect battery to it:

battery

3 Connect JTAG/UART programmer

This device supports FT2232H-56Q Mini Module for flashing both FE310 and ESP32 firmware. Connect FT2232H-56Q to J205 connector using 12 pin FFC breakout board according to folowing table:

J205 Pin FT2232H-56Q Pin
1. ESP32.UART0.RXD BD0
2. ESP32.UART0.TXD BD1
3. GND GND
4. JTAG_TCK AD0
5. JTAG_TDO AD2
6. JTAG_TMS AD3
7. JTAG_TDI AD1
8. JTAG_TRST_N AD5
9. GND GND

Leave other pins unconnected.

Alternatively, you can make FT2232H-56Q adapter board from hw/prog KiCad project directory and connect it using 12 conductor 0.5mm pitch FFC jumper cable.

4 Install software prerequisites

You will need the following software:

Binary RISC-V GNU Toolchain and OpenOCD are available from SiFive at https://github.com/sifive/freedom-tools/releases

Download and unpack the archives for your platform and export RISCV_PATH and RISCV_OPENOCD_PATH variables:

export RISCV_PATH=/path/to/riscv64-gcc
export RISCV_OPENOCD_PATH=/path/to/riscv-openocd

To install ESP-IDF follow instructions from ESP-IDF Programming Guide. Install version 4.2 or later.

5 Compile and upload firmware

Clone git repository:

git clone https://git.majstor.org/mikroPhone

To build firmware for FE310 run follwing commands:

cd <path to repository>/fw/fe310
make
cd phone
make upload_ftdi

To build firmware for ESP32 run following commands:

cd <path to repository>/fw/esp32
make menuconfig
make
make flash

In make menuconfig, please make sure that Enable PPP support is selected under Component config -> LWIP menu and that Notify Phase Callback, PAP Support and CHAP Support are selected under PPP menu.

Before flashing ESP32 device you must put it into programming mode: