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API changes in releases 20160129 and 20160818

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 13:11:19 +0000

API changes in releases 20160129 and 20160818 20160818 changes In this release old LibusbJava/libusb-0.1 was replaced by usb4java/libusb-1.0. This required major changes in the source code of the API. The interface changes are kept small but host software has to be ported to usb4java too, see

API Reference

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 21:07:07 +0000

API Reference The API documentation can be found on the ZTEX Homepage: * JAVA API reference * C Core API reference

Default Firmware

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 20:26:28 +0000

Default Firmware The ZTEX SDK includes Default Firmwares for all Series 2 FPGA Boards. They define a set of compatible features: * Bitstream uploading to volatile and non-volatile memory * Communication interface: * Hi-speed bi-directional interface operating at maximum possible data rate of the hardware

DeviceServer

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 21:12:24 +0000

DeviceServer The device server is an easy-to-use user interface for accessing ZTEX Boards. It's a part of the ZTEX SDK. Main features are: * Two access methods: HTTP (e.g. using a web browser) and a simple socket protocol * Supports uploading of Firmware and Bitstream into volatile and non-volatile memory

FWLoader

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 17:32:09 +0000

FWLoader FWLoader is the Firmware and Bitstream upload utility of the EZ-USB SDK. Usage There are two ways of starting FWLoader. Either by executing the bash script FWLoader in the directory java/FWLoader of the SDK package or by calling java -cp []FWLoader.jar FWLoader

Installing the package

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 01:47:10 +0000

Installing the package The package is available in tar.bz2 and zip archives and can be unpacked anywhere e.g. using the commands bunzip2 -c ztex-.tar.bz2 | tar -x or unzip ztex-.zip, respectively.

Hints for Linux users

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 10:15:42 +0000

Hints for Linux users Under Linux no driver is required. The hardware can be accessed directly using the libusb-1.0 library. But permissions have to be managed. To grant access to all users of the group usb, add the following UDEV rules e.g. to /etc/udev/rules.d/99-ztex.rules

Features and Overview

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 19:43:11 +0000

Features and Overview The SDK implements FPGA Board specific functions in the firmware and allows to access them using the host software API. These functions are: * Firmware upload directly to the EZ-USB FX2 and FX3 Microcontrollers * Access to SPI-Flash

Contents of the package

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 21:37:24 +0000

Contents of the package The following table gives an overview about the package contents Directory Description bin Pre-build binaries and scripts required for compiling the firmware bmp The sources of the babel macro processor required for building the firmware

System requirements

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 11:42:10 +0000

System requirements Operating Systems The host software is written in Java and uses usb4java for USB communication. The ZTEX SDK includes native libraries for the following Operation Systems: * Linux, X86, 32 Bit and 64 Bit (tested) * Windows, X86, 32 Bit and 64 Bit (tested)

ZTEX EZ-USB SDK

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 17:50:31 +0000

ZTEX EZ-USB SDK ZTEX provides a SDK which is especially designed for the ZTEX modules, but also works with other EZ-USB based hardware. The SDK consists in two parts: * The Firmware Kit which is used for building the firmware for the EZ-USB device, * The host software

Tutorial -- Compilation of an example

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 17:33:36 +0000

Tutorial -- Compilation of an example This tutorial explains how the (example) projects from the SDK can be build. The building rules are described by Makefile's, i.e. an appropriate GNU environment is required. * Make sure that the System requirements are satisfied.

Tutorial -- Running an example

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 12 Sep 2018 12:45:11 +0000

Tutorial -- Running an example This tutorial explains how the examples from the package are executed. To execute the example only one .jar file is required which runs under all supported Operating systems. This .jar file contains all Java bytecode, the firmware, the bitstream and the

USB ID's and device identification

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 10:16:09 +0000

USB ID's and device identification Usually USB products are identified using two ID's, the vendor ID and the product ID. The vendor ID must be purchased from the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF). The product ID is assigned by the vendor. According to the USB-IF rules the vendor ID must only be used by the manufacturer of a product.

USB Access

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 15:01:02 +0000

USB Access ZTEX SDK uses usb4java which bases on libusb-1.0 to access USB devices. Information about usage of these libraries can be found on the project pages: * usb4java project page * usb4java API documentation * libusb project page

Hints for Windows users

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 14:25:00 +0000

Hints for Windows users Both compilers which are used for building firmware (sdcc for FX2 and gcc for FX3) come from the Unix-world. They have been ported to Windows but unfortunately Windows is a quite unfriendly environment for such programs. Some SDK's hide this behind an IDE (e.g. the Cypress FX3 SDK is delivered with Eclipse). ZTEX does no go this way.