Page History

Scroll pdf title
title Firmware/bitstream tools comparison chart
Tool 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 DEWESoft Firmware Upgrade Tool Gen2 Open_FUT for generation 2 Gen2 Open_FUT for generation 3 (5) (5) Gen3 CyConsole = Cypress USB Console Firmware Recovery Recovery Boot CyControl = Cypress USB Control Center Firmware Update Recovery Boot (8) OpenFutNet: it is possible to run 3 different procedures FPGA Config(6)  Recovery Boot  (7) should be used instead Firmware Update(6)   Recovery Boot (7) Firmware Update (6) FPGA Config (4)  Recovery Boot  (7) (9)

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

...

⁽³⁾ Firmware Recovery: it requires USB generic Cypress device driver, to boot with EEPROM disabled and to enable EEPROM after TE USB FX2 module is inserted into USB port. This is the procedure followed by Recovery Boot (TE USB FX2 Firmware Recovery) (CyConsole and CyControl) and Recovery Procedure (OpenFutNet).

⁽⁴⁾ You can use  Recovery Procedure to program the USB FX2 microcontroller's  EEPROM with the Generation 3 Firmware required by Firmware UpgradeUpdate and FPGA Configuration.

⁽⁵⁾ Based on simplified TE_USB_FX2_CyAPI.dll

...

• DEWESoft FUT (firmware upgrade tool)
• Open_FUT for generation 2 (Firmware Upgrade Update and FPGA Configuration)
• Open_FUT for generation 3 (Firmware Upgrade Update and FPGA Configuration using a simplified TE_USB_FX2_CyAPI.dll)
• OpenFutNet (generation 3, Firmware UpgradeUpdate  and FPGA Configuration are using both CyUSB.dll and TE_USB_FX2_CyUSB.dll )

...

• Cypress USB Console (Recovery Boot (TE USB FX2 Firmware Recovery) uses CyAPI.lib)
• Cypress USB Control Center (Recovery Boot (TE USB FX2 Firmware Recovery) uses CyUSB.dll)
• OpenFutNet ( Recovery Boot uses CyUSB.dll)

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).