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Recommended tool for new users (Generation 3 firmware): OpenFutNet.

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titleFirmware/bitstream tools comparison chart
Tool (under Windows OS)FPGA
Config
capable?		Generation 2 Firmware
Upgrade capable?(1)		Generation 3 Firmware
Upgrade capable?(2)		Is Reference
Firmware required?		Firmware
Recovery
capable?(3) 		Is
Microsoft
.NET
Framework required?		Is
Python 2.7 Interpreter
required?
Xilinx iMPACT (a Linux version also exist)(tick)(error)(error)(error)(error)(error)(error)
DEWESoft
Firmware
Upgrade Tool		(tick)(tick)(error)

(tick)

Gen2

(error)(error)(error)
Open_FUT
for generation 2		(tick)(tick)(error)

(tick)

Gen2

(error)(error)(tick)
Open_FUT
for generation 3

(tick)

(5)

(error)

(tick)

(5)

(tick)

Gen3

(error)(error)(tick)
CyConsole
= Cypress
USB Console		(error)(error)(tick)

(error) for

Recovery
Boot and

Firmware
Update

(tick)

Recovery
Boot

(error)(error)
CyControl
= Cypress
USB Control Center		(error)(error)(tick)

(error) for

Recovery
Boot and

Firmware
Update

(tick)

Recovery
Boot

(tick)

(8)

(error)

OpenFutNet:
it is possible to run 3 different procedures

(tick)

FPGA
Config(6)

(error) 

 Recovery
Boot  (7)
should be
used
instead

(tick)

Firmware
Update(6)

 (error)
Recovery
Boot (7)

(tick)
Firmware
Update (6)

(tick)
FPGA
Config (4)

(tick) 

 Recovery
Boot  (7)

(tick)

(9)

(error)

 

(1) Generation 2 Firmware Upgrade: it requires DEWESoft device driver (VID/PID:0x0547/0x1002) and DEWESoft API.

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