XILINX FPGA firmware loader

XILINX FPGA firmware loader

[Martin Langer]

Any documents available about downloading bitstreams into XILINX FPGA's?

- vxloader uses it. Which XILINX chip is it?
- RME uses XILINX FPGA's since years. I suppose hdsploader is for loading 
  bits into such a Xilinx FPGA. 
  Anybody there who saw a Xilinx FPGA on/in his hdsp card?
  Which chip is there?
- is miXart also Xilinx based?
- and Tascam USx2x uses it and that's why they need firmware number two.


martin


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Re: XILINX FPGA firmware loader

[Thomas Charbonnel]

>
> Any documents available about downloading bitstreams into XILINX FPGA's?
>
> - vxloader uses it. Which XILINX chip is it?
> - RME uses XILINX FPGA's since years. I suppose hdsploader is for
> loading
>   bits into such a Xilinx FPGA.
>   Anybody there who saw a Xilinx FPGA on/in his hdsp card?
>   Which chip is there?
>

Hdsploader doesn't really upload a firmware. It uploads configuration data
to an already initialized card. RME sent me informations to implement a
firware updater for linux, I didn't take a close look at it yet, but I'll
let you know.

hdsp 9652 has a Spartan-II xc2s200 chip
hdsp 9632 has a Spartan-II xc2s150
I don't know which chip's on the Digiface and Multiface.

Thomas





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Re: XILINX FPGA firmware loader

[Martin Langer]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 12:47:02PM +0200, Thomas Charbonnel wrote:
> >
> > Any documents available about downloading bitstreams into XILINX FPGA's?
> >
> > - vxloader uses it. Which XILINX chip is it?
> > - RME uses XILINX FPGA's since years. I suppose hdsploader is for
> > loading
> >   bits into such a Xilinx FPGA.
> >   Anybody there who saw a Xilinx FPGA on/in his hdsp card?
> >   Which chip is there?
> >
> 
> Hdsploader doesn't really upload a firmware. It uploads configuration data
> to an already initialized card. RME sent me informations to implement a
> firware updater for linux, I didn't take a close look at it yet, but I'll
> let you know.

that sounds interesting.

> 
> hdsp 9652 has a Spartan-II xc2s200 chip
> hdsp 9632 has a Spartan-II xc2s150
>
> I don't know which chip's on the Digiface and Multiface.

Thanks, that spartan chip is the most intersting point for me. I don't need
further information about your *face hardware.

Tascam US122 has a Spartan xc2s15 (if anybody might be interested)

... and I just found some linux driver for an USB device with EZUSB and
Xilinx Spartan :-)
http://www.johann-glaser.at/projects/X2S_USB/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/x2susbsfwkit

What about a common format for the configuration data? In my case it should
be extractable from a binary. Does the Spartan reads a special binary format?


Thanks, 
martin


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Re: XILINX FPGA firmware loader

[Takashi Iwai]

At Sun, 17 Aug 2003 10:13:33 +0200,
Martin Langer wrote:
> 
> 
> Any documents available about downloading bitstreams into XILINX FPGA's?
> 
> - vxloader uses it. Which XILINX chip is it?

xilinx spartan chip.

> - is miXart also Xilinx based?

yes.  right now, i'm not sure which chip is, though.


Takashi


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