Generating ECE574: PROM for Spartan-3
Kahraman Akdemir
When you design a model, you might want to download it to your Spartan-3 board PROM, so that every time you turn off the power, your system won't disappear. In order to download your design into the PROM, first of all you need to create a PROM file (.mcs). Step 1: Click on "Generate PROM, ACE, or JTAG file" under "Generate Programing File" section on the left in "Processes For Source" window.
Choose "PROM file" and click "Next". Step 2: Change the name of your prom file using "PROM File Name" slot in the new window. You don't have to change anything else.
Click "Next".
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ECE574: Generating PROM for Spartan-3
Kahraman Akdemir
Step 3: Select the appropriate PROM which is "xcf" "xcf02s" in our case. Click on "Add" botton to add your PROM to the "Position-Part Name" window.
Click "Next". Step 4: You will see the following window.
Click "Next" without changing anything.
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ECE574: Generating PROM for Spartan-3
Kahraman Akdemir
Step 5: You will see the following window. Click on "Add File..." button to add your design file.
When you click on "Add File..." button, you will get the following window.
Choose your main ".bit" file and click on "Open". will You see the following window.
Click "OK" and continue. You will now see the following window. 3
ECE574: Generating PROM for Spartan-3
Kahraman Akdemir
Say "No" and continue. Step 6: When you see this window, click on "Finish".
You will see the following window now.
Say "Yes". Step 7: Now you will see the following window. Your .mcs file is created successfully.
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ECE574: Generating PROM for Spartan-3
Kahraman Akdemir
Close this window and go to "Configure Device (iMPACT)" section. Do the same things that we do for downloading our program to the board. The only difference is now, we also have to add the PROM file to the system. Step 8: After the usual step of adding our ".bit" file to our FPGA(xc3s200) what we normally do was bypassing the xcf02s. H...