GUI programmer for miniSpartan6+ development board
The application uses xc3sprog to function, so you need to have a working copy of that application first, check xc3sprog website to learn how http://xc3sprog.sourceforge.net/
This project is developed using Qt Creator, and should work with Qt4 and above (tested with both Qt4 and Qt5 on Linux and Windows). Simply open the project from Qt Creator and make sure you have Qt installed then click on Build then Run (or Run directly and will build it for you if it need to).
When you start up the application it will look into its current folder to find the xc3sprog execuatable, if it is not there then you have to tell it where to find that file (it has to be with that exact name). Next you need to select the bit file (must have ".bit" extension) then click on 'Program'. The details console will show the the result, check it to see if it was successful or it there was any error.
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"Permission denied" + "Failed to start" (Linux only) Make sure the 'xc3sprog' has the execute permission set for your user.
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When compiling xc3sprog you might get "fatal error: ftdi.h: No such file or directory" Make sure you have (libftdi 0.x) installed, some new Linux distributions have moved to (libftdi 1.x) if that is the case with your distribution then fix the source code of xc3sprog to use the new library instead.