From 051bf12ec7907e8f88f31bfb92418888a1a3505f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2023 21:44:23 +0200 Subject: Import flexloader-0.01.tar.gz --- README | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) create mode 100644 README (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000..047768a --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +flexloader is a small utility to configure SRAM base ALTERA devices. +It downloads a code to the device SRAM using the ALTERA ByteBlaster +or a clone (see byteblaster.png for a schematic). It dialogs with it +through the parallel interface, using parport. Note that you should +have access rights to the parallel port. + +It should support APEX20K, FLEX10K, FLEX6000 and ACEX1K families, +though I only tested it on a FLEX10K10 device. + +It currently only support files in raw binary format (.rbf), but others +format such as HEX or TTF may be implemented later. + +It's use is very simple: + + flexloader /dev/parport0 code.rbf + +flexloader currently supports a few options switches, you can get them +using: + + flexloader --help -- cgit v1.2.3