gEDA-user: CPLDs and other high-density logic chips...

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Mon Sep 11 13:59:41 EDT 2006


On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 08:11:47PM -0500, David Carr wrote:
> You can actually do without the binary only kernel modules. I use a GPL 
> tool called xc3sprog to program my Xilinx fpga devices. Do a quick 
> google and you'll find it. It only officially supports Spartan 3 devices 
> but I was able to make it program a Virtex II Pro as well. Let me know 
> if you need some help getting it set up.

Oh, that's interesting.  It takes in bit files rather than SVFs.  I
wonder if that will cause trouble in using it on older chips than
Spartan3s. 

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