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I've been trying to help Frank get his Xilinx programmer working so we can try to work on some trouble he's having with his DFB1.

He's got a knock-off programming cable labelled as DLC9LP and with the following in lsusb:-
Now 03fd/000f isn't listed in my copy of xc3prog, but we've tried setting it up as "xpc" (as that was the closest with 03fd/0008) via a cables database text file to no avail.

Does anyone have one of these matching these VIP/PID settings & know how to get it to work?

Ta,

BW

This post indicates that 03fd:000f is one of the PIDs the cable can have when it expects the user to load the firmware to the cable:
https://github.com/timvideos/litex-buil ... nder-Linux

If you can't get stuff working, using a raspberry pi with a few jumper cables has worked very well for me

https://linuxjedi.co.uk/2021/11/25/revi ... pberry-pi/

Problem is I have not a pi and my PC had win7 and Ubuntu 15.04 on it. I can not install xc3sprog onto Linux because I can not upgrade to a newer version the PC is a 32bit one. So I must work with windows 7 ...

czietz wrote: 13 May 2022 20:46 This post indicates that 03fd:000f is one of the PIDs the cable can have when it expects the user to load the firmware to the cable:
https://github.com/timvideos/litex-buil ... nder-Linux

Oh my word!

Thanks, Christian. That looks an absolute pain.

BW

frank.lukas wrote: 13 May 2022 21:25 Problem is I have not a pi and my PC had win7 and Ubuntu 15.04 on it. I can not install xc3sprog onto Linux because I can not upgrade to a newer version the PC is a 32bit one. So I must work with windows 7 ...

Looking at the instructions Christian posted, it might be easier, quicker and cheaper to get a Pi ZeroW!

BW

This is what mine presented before it had been initialized (firmware uploaded? Don't remember).

Wasn't a big deal to sort out.

Badwolf wrote: 13 May 2022 22:26 Thanks, Christian. That looks an absolute pain.

Hm, isn't it just one single command ("fxload ...") that Frank needs to run to load the firmware into the cable?

Badwolf wrote: 13 May 2022 22:27 Looking at the instructions Christian posted, it might be easier, quicker and cheaper to get a Pi ZeroW!

Looking at the worldwide(!) availability (or rather: non-availability) of Pi Zeros I doubt that: https://rpilocator.com/?cat=PIZERO

czietz wrote: 14 May 2022 08:23 Looking at the worldwide(!) availability (or rather: non-availability) of Pi Zeros I doubt that: https://rpilocator.com/?cat=PIZERO

Only if you buy new, I'm sure Frank could find one in local ads like Facebook market or Gumtree. There are *lots* of people who purchased a Pi for a project but never used it.

When WIN7 boots, the red status LED on the USB cable lights up. I installed Labtool and the USB cable is recognized there, there is no message that it was not found, so I assume that it is recognized. But there is an error message that UREF is not there. I think I killed the USB cable at the very beginning because it also smelled like burnt electronics.

What is the exact way of proceeding when flashing?

A Rasp Pi is too expensive for me. I bought a USB CJMCU FT232H module and am trying it. Otherwise I have to send my Falcon mainboard plus DFB1 to England.