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<section id="advanced-usage-of-openfpgaloader">
<span id="advanced-usage"></span><h1>Advanced usage of openFPGALoader<a class="headerlink" href="#advanced-usage-of-openfpgaloader" title="Link to this heading"></a></h1>
<section id="resetting-an-fpga">
<h2>Resetting an FPGA<a class="headerlink" href="#resetting-an-fpga" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>openFPGALoader<span class="w"> </span><span class="o">[</span>options<span class="o">]</span><span class="w"> </span>-r
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="using-negative-edge-for-tdo-s-sampling">
<h2>Using negative edge for TDOs sampling<a class="headerlink" href="#using-negative-edge-for-tdo-s-sampling" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>If transaction are unstable you can try to change read edge by using</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>openFPGALoader<span class="w"> </span><span class="o">[</span>options<span class="o">]</span><span class="w"> </span>--invert-read-edge
</pre></div>
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<section id="reading-the-bitstream-from-stdin">
<h2>Reading the bitstream from STDIN<a class="headerlink" href="#reading-the-bitstream-from-stdin" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>cat<span class="w"> </span>/path/to/bitstream.ext<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">|</span><span class="w"> </span>openFPGALoader<span class="w"> </span>--file-type<span class="w"> </span>ext<span class="w"> </span><span class="o">[</span>options<span class="o">]</span>
</pre></div>
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<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--file-type</span></code> is required to detect file type.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>Its possible to load a bitstream through network:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># FPGA side</span>
nc<span class="w"> </span>-lp<span class="w"> </span>port<span class="w"> </span><span class="p">|</span><span class="w"> </span>openFPGALoader<span class="w"> </span>--file-type<span class="w"> </span>xxx<span class="w"> </span><span class="o">[</span>option<span class="o">]</span>
<span class="c1"># Bitstream side</span>
nc<span class="w"> </span>-q<span class="w"> </span><span class="m">0</span><span class="w"> </span>host<span class="w"> </span>port<span class="w"> </span>&lt;<span class="w"> </span>/path/to/bitstream.ext
</pre></div>
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<section id="automatic-file-type-detection-bypass">
<h2>Automatic file type detection bypass<a class="headerlink" href="#automatic-file-type-detection-bypass" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>Default behavior is to use file extension to determine file parser.
To avoid this mechanism <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--file-type</span> <span class="pre">type</span></code> must be used.</p>
</section>
<section id="ft231-ft232-bitbang-mode-and-pins-configuration">
<h2>FT231/FT232 bitbang mode and pins configuration<a class="headerlink" href="#ft231-ft232-bitbang-mode-and-pins-configuration" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>FT232R and ft231X may be used as JTAG programmer.
JTAG communications are emulated in bitbang mode.</p>
<p>To use these devices user needs to provides both the cable and the pin mapping:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>openFPGALoader<span class="w"> </span><span class="o">[</span>options<span class="o">]</span><span class="w"> </span>-cft23XXX<span class="w"> </span>--pins<span class="o">=</span>TDI:TDO:TCK:TMS<span class="w"> </span>/path/to/bitstream.ext
</pre></div>
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<p>where:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>ft23XXX may be <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ft232RL</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ft231X</span></code>.</p></li>
<li><p>TDI:TDO:TCK:TMS may be the pin ID (0 &lt;= id &lt;= 7) or string value.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>allowed values are:</p>
<table class="docutils align-default">
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>value</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>ID</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>TXD</p></td>
<td><p>0</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>RXD</p></td>
<td><p>1</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>RTS</p></td>
<td><p>2</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>CTS</p></td>
<td><p>3</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>DTR</p></td>
<td><p>4</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>DSR</p></td>
<td><p>5</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>DCD</p></td>
<td><p>6</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>RI</p></td>
<td><p>7</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="writing-to-an-arbitrary-address-in-flash-memory">
<h2>Writing to an arbitrary address in flash memory<a class="headerlink" href="#writing-to-an-arbitrary-address-in-flash-memory" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>With FPGA using an external SPI flash (<em>xilinx</em>, <em>lattice ECP5/nexus/ice40</em>, <em>anlogic</em>, <em>efinix</em>) option <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-o</span></code> allows
one to write raw binary file to an arbitrary adress in FLASH.</p>
</section>
<section id="detect-read-write-on-primary-secondary-flash-memories">
<h2>Detect/read/write on primary/secondary flash memories<a class="headerlink" href="#detect-read-write-on-primary-secondary-flash-memories" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>With FPGA using two external SPI flash (some <em>xilinx</em> boards) option <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">--target-flash</span></code> allows to select the QSPI chip.</p>
<p>To detect:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>openFPGALoader<span class="w"> </span>-b<span class="w"> </span>kcu105<span class="w"> </span>-f<span class="w"> </span>--target-flash<span class="w"> </span><span class="o">{</span>primary,secondary<span class="o">}</span><span class="w"> </span>--detect
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>To read the primary flash memory:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>openFPGALoader<span class="w"> </span>-b<span class="w"> </span>kcu105<span class="w"> </span>-f<span class="w"> </span>--target-flash<span class="w"> </span>primary<span class="w"> </span>--dump-flash<span class="w"> </span>--file-size<span class="w"> </span>N_BYTES<span class="w"> </span>mydump.bin
</pre></div>
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<p>and the second flash memory:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>openFPGALoader<span class="w"> </span>-b<span class="w"> </span>kcu105<span class="w"> </span>-f<span class="w"> </span>--target-flash<span class="w"> </span>secondary<span class="w"> </span>--dump-flash<span class="w"> </span>--file-size<span class="w"> </span>N_BYTES<span class="w"> </span>--secondary-bitstream<span class="w"> </span>mydump.bin
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>To write on secondary flash memory:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>openFPGALoader<span class="w"> </span>-b<span class="w"> </span>kcu105<span class="w"> </span>-f<span class="w"> </span>--target-flash<span class="w"> </span>secondary<span class="w"> </span>--secondary-bitstream<span class="w"> </span>mySecondaryBitstream.bin
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="using-an-alternative-directory-for-spioverjtag">
<h2>Using an alternative directory for <em>spiOverJtag</em><a class="headerlink" href="#using-an-alternative-directory-for-spioverjtag" title="Link to this heading"></a></h2>
<p>By setting <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OPENFPGALOADER_SOJ_DIR</span></code> its possible to override default
<em>spiOverJtag</em> bitstreams directory:</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nb">export</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">OPENFPGALOADER_SOJ_DIR</span><span class="o">=</span>/somewhere
openFPGALoader<span class="w"> </span>xxxx
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>or</p>
<div class="highlight-bash notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nv">OPENFPGALOADER_SOJ_DIR</span><span class="o">=</span>/somewhere<span class="w"> </span>openFPGALoader<span class="w"> </span>xxxx
</pre></div>
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