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Re: Carte Blanche JTAG cable questions



"Alex Freed" <alex_news@mirrow.com> wrote in message 
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> Charlie wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Alex & Steve,
>>
>> I followed your instructions and was able to send the VGA 
>> diagnostic to the Carte Blanche card without any trouble.  One 
>> question though, after assigning a new file Xilinx Impact 11.1 
>> gives an option to flash SPI/BPI prom (YES/NO).  I chose NO but 
>> if I had chosen YES could I flash the memory this way instead of 
>> from the SD card?
>
> That *sometimes* works on 500E cards and fails on 250E cards. So I 
> wouldn't try that if I were you. That's what my SD file 
> initialization is there for. BTW it works about 100 times faster 
> anyway.
>
> -Alex.

Okay, I was just wondering.  I'll use the SD if/when the time comes.

Charlie