nn-usb-fpga/Software/xc3sprog

Spartan3 JTAG programmer and other utilities

Copyright (C) 2004 Andrew Rogers

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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This program should run without installation as root.

To compile:

$ make


A simple example is included that copies the switches to the LEDs on the Xilinx Spartan3 Starter Kit.

$ ./xc3sprog echo_out.bit


The Platform Flash PROM of the Xilinx Spartan3 Starter Kit can be programmed by specifying it's location in the JTAG chain. Example command line below.

$ ./xc3sprog echo_out.bit 1


There is also a utility program included that parses and prints the header of a Xilinx .bit file.

$ ./bitparse echo_out.bit