Sundance SMT148FX - Manual (Page 33)

11 Accessing the Flash
This section describes the various steps to follow to access the Flash.
11.1 Programming the Spartan
Set the switches of the SMT148FX with SW3 [4-3-2-1]= ON ON ON ON and
SW4[4-3-2-1] = OFF OFF OFF ON.
SW4 [1] ON provides Programming and erase accesses of the Flash.
SW4 [1] OFF disables these accesses and enables read accesses only of the Flash in a
view to program the FPGAs.
Reset or power off and on the SMT148FX evytime you change the switch settings..
11.2 Erase and Program of the Flash
Sundance provides 2 download utilities:
• The SMT6002 is a free utility downloadable with the Sundance wizard.
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The Spartan firmware MUST be located at address 0x0.
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The Virtex 4 firmware MUST be located at address 0x800000.
• The SMT6048 package provides a host utility called FlashUtility.exe.
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Tick the option for the relevant FPGA and you can delete/ program a
new firmware for it.
Browse to the firmware of your choice for the SMT148FX Spartan or the Virtex
4(after the next power up, it will be loaded from Flash in the Spartan and/or the
Virtex4.)
It can be found in:
$\Program Files\Sundance\SMT6002\Firmware\Smt148FX
You always need to delete the current bitstream before replacing
it with a new bitstream in Flash.
Deleting a bitstream is quick, but erasing the whole flash can take 2 minutes.
Programming takes about 1 minute.
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