Possible to program Arty SPI ROM without full Vivado?

[Paul_kimelman]

I have given Arty boards to some people, and now I need to update the SPI ROM. Is there something smaller than the fully Vivado and its HW manager for doing this? I would assume something that just connects to the USB and programs it the same way (with a bin file). Sorry if this has been covered before, but I cannot find it in the forums nor in the manual.

[jpeyron]

Hi @Paul_kimelman,

The Adept 2 will program a bit file on the arty but will not program the flash(bin file). I am not aware of any other way than to use the hardware manager.

 thank you,

Jon

 

 

 

 

[Paul_kimelman]

OK, thanks

[D@n]

@Paul_kimelman,

If you configure an Arty with the bin file from the OpenArty project, there's a zprog.sh program that can be used to load an arbitrary bitfile.  You'll need to adjust the location of the bit-file, and might also want to skip the call to wbsettime at the end.

Dan

 

[Paul_kimelman]

12 hours ago, D@n said:

@Paul_kimelman,

If you configure an Arty with the bin file from the OpenArty project, there's a zprog.sh program that can be used to load an arbitrary bitfile.  You'll need to adjust the location of the bit-file, and might also want to skip the call to wbsettime at the end.

Thanks, I will look at that. As it turned out, the person had Vivado installed and did not even know it, so I slipped by this time. But, I will look at this OpenArty project before this comes up next time.