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Unable to program the FX3

parshu posted on 09 Jun 2011 10:34 AM PST
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We are running into issues with being unable to program the FX3 chip with the .img files using the Cypress Control Center tool. Is there another way to be able to program the Cypress device? We are able to get to this point, but no further with the example projects if we cannot program the FX3 right now.

 

Re: Unable to program the FX3

max08 posted on 10 Jun 2011 11:13 PM PST
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hi parshu,

The beta1 version of USB3 control center does support dowloading boot image into FX3 RAM. Im assuming that you are setting the device to boot from USB using the PMODE pins.

Can you please tell me what error you see while trying to download ? 

Thanks!

Re: Unable to program the FX3

parshu posted on 10 Jun 2011 07:14 AM PST
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Hi Max08,

When I try to program the USB 3.0 FX3 through the Cy Control centre, I see the below line...

"Programming RAM of Cypress USB FX3 Boot loader" and then I see " Programming failed".

Is there any other way of programming the Cypress chip ?

Thanks,

Parshu

Re: Unable to program the FX3

max08 posted on 16 Jun 2011 03:46 AM PST
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 Hi,

We tested this on multiple machines, OS'es and with different firmware images, and do not see such a failure.

Are you using one of our firmware samples ? If not could you send us the firmware image you are using?

Also is it possible to send us a usb trace of the failure?

Thanks.

Re: Unable to program the FX3

parshu posted on 20 Jun 2011 02:17 PM PST
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Hi Max08,

We had a bad hardware.

Regards,

Parshu

Re: Unable to program the FX3

volkertischer posted on 21 Jul 2011 03:03 AM PST
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Hi,

I am using the FX3 DVK Device Board Rev2.

One problem is that sometimes the device could not be detected by the OS and does not occur in the device manager.

The other problem is that sometimes the programming of the device fails using the cypress controlcenter.

I tested with Win 7 x64 and with XP x86 and different machines. After starting the PC everything works fine. But after programming the device for a couple of times and/or reconnecting the device programming failes or the device does not occur in the deivce manager.

What could be wrong? This seems to a problem of the reference design of the FX3 DVK Device Board Rev2?

regards

Re: Unable to program the FX3

parshu posted on 22 Jul 2011 09:47 AM PST
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Hi,

I do face a similar problem with the Rev 1 board. I need to toggle the switch a couple of times for the FX3 to get detected in device manager. But never got any programming issues after it gets detected. However please not that the message 'programming failed' is a bug in the 'cycenter tool. Even if the programming is successful, this message is shown in the Cycenter tool.

Re: Unable to program the FX3

gkgarner posted on 22 Jul 2011 12:44 PM PST
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I have found that the May 11 board often behaves at odds with program fail/succeed message.  Generally, if it succeeds, then the program will just be the boot loader, but if it fails, then it has the correct code.



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