Quartus uses the Ethernet MAC address for the license, and expects an “eth0” device.
XILINX ISE 14.7 INSTALLATION GUIDE LINUX INSTALL
Platform Cable USB II Altera Quartusĭownload and install version 15 with updates (no root access needed) You should get with "lsusb" Bus xxx Device xxx: ID 03fd:0008 Xilinx, Inc. WROTE: 7443 bytes, 85 segments, avg 87īut, with the UDEV file, everything is configured automatically. Write on-chip, addr 0x0bfd len 79 (0x004f) When it works, and the correct USB device is selected, you will see a long list of "write on-chip" messages, ending with : Just switch off the Xilinx hardware and type : udevadm control -reload-rulesįxload can also be tried manually at first: You generally don’t have to reboot the computer to test udev rules. Maybe it is because the USB interface on the SP605 board is somewhat special. This file may be different than the one usually found on the net. – The third line gives the rule for starting "fxload" and download the firmware. – The second line allows accesses to the cable driver from any user (so you don’t have to be root to run ‘impact’) – The first line allows accesses to the usb-serial interface from any user.
SUBSYSTEMS="usb", ACTION="add", ATTRS="000d", RUN+="/sbin/fxload -v -t fx2 -I /opt/Xilinx/14.7/ISE_DS/ISE/bin/lin/xusbdfwu.hex -D $tempnode" You don’t have to compile any kernel driver for the USB download cables.Ĭreate (as root) the file "les" in "/etc/udev/rules.d" with : # version 0003
You will need to create a symlink in /lib64 : "ln -s libusb-1.0.so libusb.so" (as root) You will need to install "fxload" and "libusb" The SP605 board embeds a “Platform cable USB/II” Make scripts or aliases to save a few keystrokes.
To start Xilinx tools, type something like :
XILINX ISE 14.7 INSTALLATION GUIDE LINUX DRIVERS
Don’t try to install the cable drivers here.