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|   Nov 17, 2008 at  2:16pm

Any chance of seeing a basic project example for this board? There are a tonne of possibilities for this dev board, but I think many of us who are new to FPGA could use a bit of a push in the right direction. Perhaps even something as simple as a basic project for the freely available Xilinx ISE Webpack that shows basic I/O.

I'm trying to make a project now using the Base System Builder, but because I need to specify all the hardware on this board (serial, etc.), I'm a bit lost. Is there anyone at Sparkfun who has some basic experience with FGPAs?

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|   Mar 13, 2009 at  2:57pm

How do you want to program things? You can do it one of three ways in the Webpack. These are schematic, VHDL, and Verilog.

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|   Aug 16, 2009 at 11:18am

I bought the mach4064 dev board from xgamestation. It has the ability to program other devices via an eight pin ribbon cable taken off the board. Will that work to program this board?

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|   Aug 16, 2009 at 11:20am

Correction, the mach4064 has a 10 pin header and cable for programming other devices, not 8 pin as I originally stated.

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|   Sep 28, 2009 at  5:28am

I am not able to program the AT45DB161D on this board using
1) Indirect SPI (with Impact 9.2.4i with USB cable)
Does ISE9.2.4i support Indirect SPI for XC3s500e ?
2) Direct SPI (with a header soldered to the Flash chip)
Gives error -> Impact 2595 "device validation terminated"
3) Downloaded and tweaked the S3ESK Picoblaze Serial port programmer from Xilinx website. This is meant for M25P16 flash on the EDK board. so in spite of serial port saying "OK" after dumping the mcs file, all the locations were blank (0xFF).
I guess its the different command set that is causing problem.
4) The "load_prom.sh" in the attached Python script gives an error of "xilprg" command not found.

I am using ISE 9.2.4i with USB prog cable.
The XC3S500E is getting detected and a sample LED blink bit file is working. but i am not able to program the AT45DB161D.

Any ideas ?

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|   Oct  1, 2009 at 10:40am

Ok. The SPI flash is getting programmed finally.
The trick is to use impact of ISE 10.1 and use the indirect SPI programming.
ISE 9.2.4i does not support indirect SPI programming for this chip/board.

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|   Oct 17, 2009 at  9:53am

Is there any chance you could post the Eagle files?

Also, are there any plans for a usb programmer?

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|   Nov 24, 2009 at  1:36pm

Can I program this with the serial port provided on the dev board?

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|   Dec 26, 2009 at  9:18pm

I just got my DEV-08458 Board and the Xilinx Parallel Programmer. I have installed ISE Webpack 10.1 and as far as I know, It does not support the Parallel Programmer III or its clones. How do I get around this? How do I programme the Flash in Indirect SPI mode using the Xilinx Parallel Programmer?

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|   Jul 28, 2010 at  2:41pm

Why is there no SPE reply to these questions? I am an active FPGA developer, but I hesitate buying this because the lack of support. SPE, please respond. All we want is an easy way to program this FPGA and PROM.

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|   Jul 28, 2010 at  3:00pm

*SFE