3rd Party/Other Boards and Kits

[janscholz]

Hy!

I try to program the nexys 3 board with SDK. When I try to program the FPGA, following error occurs:

data2mem -bm C:/EDK_Projects/Nexys3/Projects/Timer_App/SDK/SDK_Export/hw/system_bd.bmm -bt \
C:/EDK_Projects/Nexys3/Projects/Timer_App/SDK/SDK_Export/hw/system.bit -bd \
C:/Xilinx/13.4/ISE_DS/EDK/sw/lib/microblaze/mb_bootloop.elf tag microblaze_0 -o b \
C:/EDK_Projects/Nexys3/Projects/Timer_App/SDK/workspace/Timer_App_hw_platform/download.bit

What can I do? 

I downloaded Adept 2.9.4 and I downloaded Adept 2.0.1

The 2.9.4 seems to Identificate the Nexys3 board, but when I click on program FPGA in SDK the same error occurs. I don´t know what to do. In the SDK folder (of digilent-download) is .\libs, .\doc, .\include and .\samples but I can´t find how to include them to Xilinx...

Hope anybody can help me.

Regards Jan

[joelby]

That just looks like the command line invocation of the data2mem tool and is not an error. Are there any other messages leading you to believe that something is wrong?

[janscholz]

There are not so much needable messages. 

All I see is:

Program FPGA failed

Reason:

FPGA configuration encountered errors.

When I click on details:

Program FPGA failed

and all in my Console window is:

elfcheck -hw \
C:/EDK_Projects/Nexys3/Projects/Timer_App/SDK/workspace/Timer_App_hw_platform/system.xml \
-mode bootload -mem BRAM -pe microblaze_0 \
C:/EDK_Projects/Nexys3/Projects/Timer_App/SDK/workspace/empty_application_0/Debug/empty_application_0.elf
elfcheck
Xilinx EDK 13.4 Build EDK_O.87xd
Copyright (c) 1995-2011 Xilinx, Inc. All rights reserved.

Command Line: elfcheck -hw
C:/EDK_Projects/Nexys3/Projects/Timer_App/SDK/workspace/Timer_App_hw_platform/sy
stem.xml -mode bootload -mem BRAM -pe microblaze_0
C:/EDK_Projects/Nexys3/Projects/Timer_App/SDK/workspace/empty_application_0/Debu
g/empty_application_0.elf

ELF file :
C:/EDK_Projects/Nexys3/Projects/Timer_App/SDK/workspace/empty_application_0/Debu
g/empty_application_0.elf
elfcheck passed.

data2mem -bm C:/EDK_Projects/Nexys3/Projects/Timer_App/SDK/SDK_Export/hw/system_bd.bmm -bt \
C:/EDK_Projects/Nexys3/Projects/Timer_App/SDK/SDK_Export/hw/system.bit -bd \
C:/EDK_Projects/Nexys3/Projects/Timer_App/SDK/workspace/empty_application_0/Debug/empty_application_0.elf \
tag microblaze_0 -o b \
C:/EDK_Projects/Nexys3/Projects/Timer_App/SDK/workspace/Timer_App_hw_platform/download.bit

is there nobody who programed a Nexys3 Board via SDK and struggles with similar errors?

Regards Jan

[joelby]

Are you able to communicate with the FPGA successfully using iMPACT? Have you installed the Digilent Plugin for Xilinx Tools?

[janscholz]

Hy I tried to use the Impact tool and it also doesn´t work. Following error occurs:

Cable connection failed.
PROGRESS_END - End Operation.
Elapsed time = 3 sec.
Cable autodetection failed.
WARNING:iMPACT:923 - Can not find cable, check cable setup !

I thing I found out what was the Problem. I use EDK 13.4 and it looks for me as if the digilent files and/or drivers aren´t able to work with 13.4.

When I tried the Impact tool with 12.4 everything worked and I could programm the FPGA.

I´ll try to create a hardware-design with edk now and tell then, if it works.

Regards Jan

[janscholz]

No I have a new problem.

In BSB, XPS can´t find my board. I browse in "Set Project Peripheral Repository Search Path" to the lib-directory from the digilent-download "Nexys3_BSB_Support". Choose plb and then I can´t find other boards then them of Xilinx. Did I forget to make any setting or something else?

[janscholz]

I don´t know why, but when I restartet my computer. Everything is ok. 

Finally I can begin to work.

Thanks for the help.

[janscholz]

Ok, I thought everything is ok, but now I´m again at the Point, where I want to programm the FPGA via SDK again...

The same "error" occurs:

ELF file : C:/Xilinx/12.4/ISE_DS/EDK/sw/lib/microblaze/mb_bootloop.elf
elfcheck passed.

data2mem -bm \
E:/Nexys3/Projects/EDK/Timer_app/SDK/SDK_Workspace_35/hw_platform_0/system_bd.bmm -bt \
E:/Nexys3/Projects/EDK/Timer_app/SDK/SDK_Workspace_35/hw_platform_0/system.bit -bd \
C:/Xilinx/12.4/ISE_DS/EDK/sw/lib/microblaze/mb_bootloop.elf tag microblaze_0 -o b \
E:/Nexys3/Projects/EDK/Timer_app/SDK/SDK_Workspace_35/hw_platform_0/download.bit

and the following error-window opens:

Program FPGA failed

Reason:

FPGA configuration encoutered errors.

When I klick on Details:

Program FPGA failed

ERROR: Connection to Board Failed

Failed to Open JTAG Cable
Check the following:
1. Cable is Connected to the Board and the Board is Powered-ON
2. On Cable Lock Error, Close the other application using the cable or Remove Cable Locks using "xclean_cablelock" command
3. You have specified the correct JTAG settings for cable type and port.

Any ideas?

[joelby · Accepted solution]

I'm not sure if the Digilent drivers work with 13.4 - that's probably a question for Digilent support - but you will need to follow the driver installation process (copying libraries around) for each new ISE installation. Have you followed the steps to configure the plugin in EDK? I refer to these steps in the manual: > EDK Software Development Kit (SDK) Setup > The following steps show how to use the EDK Software Development Kit (SDK) with the Plug-in. First, launch SDK and Select “Xilinx Tools 􏰀 Configure JTAG Settings” menu item. > >Select “3rd Party Cable, Xilinx Plug-in” and type in “-cable type xilinx_plugin modulename digilent_plugin” into the “Other Options:” field. You will need to do this for each version of EDK you have installed and are using. (the WYSIWYG editor doesn't even show up on an iPad, and I can't even use the HTML formatting tab!)

[janscholz]

Thank you!!! Now it´s working. I didn´t find any document descirbed this step? Can you post a link to the manual, just to complete my documentation.