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Generation 2 and generation 3 technology stacks share the same firmware but with different VIDs/PIDs.

Firmware tools comparison.

Recovery boot.

Firmware update/recovery playlists.

Reference Firmware

The following firmware tools

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work also if the reference firmware, or a derived firmware is not running in the module. The reference/derived firmware is not necessary because they do not make use of TE API Commands. Conversely, they directly make use of CyAPI.lib and CyUSB.dll, respectively. These two tools are therefore only able to update the firmware of the USB FX2 microcontroller, but not the FPGA configuration file (bitstream).

Generation 2

VID/PID:

• 0x0547/0x1002

Firmware files:

• TE-USB-FX2_current_DW.iic https://github.com/Trenz-Electronic/TE-USB-Suite/tree/master/TE_USB_FX2.firmware/ready_for_download

Firmware update tools:

• DEWESoft Firmware Upgrade Tool:It requires DEWESoft device driver and DEWESoft API. It work only if the DEWESoft reference/derived firmware is running in the module. DEWESoft FUT is able to update the firmware of the USB FX2 microcontroller and the FPGA configuration file (fpga.bin bitstream).
• Open_FUT for generation 2:It requires DEWESoft device driver, Python and DEWESoft API. It works only if the DEWESoft reference/derived firmware is running in the module. Open_FUT is able to update the firmware of the USB FX2 microcontroller and the FPGA configuration file (bitstream fpga.bin).

Firmware recovery tools:

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Documentation

• CyConsole = Cypress USB Console: http://www.trenz-electronic.de/download/d0/Trenz_Electronic/d1/TE-USB-Suite/d2/generation_2/d3/documents.html

Generation 3

VID/PID:

• 0x0BD0/0x0300

Firmware files:

• TE-USB-FX2_current_TE.iic https://github.com/Trenz-Electronic/TE-USB-Suite/tree/master/TE_USB_FX2.firmware/ready_for_download

Firmware update (and recovery)  tools:

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Documentation

• CyConsole = Cypress USB Console: http://www.trenz-electronic.de/download/d0/Trenz_Electronic/d1/TE-USB-Suite/d2/generation_2/d3/documents.html