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titleFirmware tool /bitstream tools comparison chart
ToolFPGA
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(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)

Firmware
Recovery

(tick)

Recovery
Boot

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

(error)

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)

...

(8) Version ≥ 2.0

(9) Version≥ 4.0.30319)

Is Reference Firmware required?

The following firmware tools

...

work only if the reference firmware, or a derived firmware, is running in the module. The reference/derived firmware is necessary because the three tools make use of TE API Commands (see the corresponding API reference manual) executed by the USB FX2 microcontroller. These tools are therefore able to update the firmware (EEPROM programming) of the USB FX2 microcontroller and the FPGA configuration file (bitstream, SPI Flash programming).

Note: some TE API Commands require support from a Xilinx MicroBlaze soft embedded processor (of the TE reference/derived architecture), but this TE API Commands are not needed for EEPROM and SPI Flash programming.

...

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).