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Cypress delivers the complete software and firmware stack for FX3, in order to easily integrate SuperSpeed USB into any embedded application. The Software Development Kit (SDK) comes with tools, drivers and application examples, which help accelerate application development.

The SDK installation package as well as zip/tar archives of individual components are available below for download. Given below is a brief description of these downloadable items to help you select the right file(s) to download.

1. EZ-USB FX3 SDK Installer - This is the master installer file that will install the firmware library with samples, USB Suite with Windows host driver and applications, Eclipse IDE & GCC tool chain. Once installed using the installer, Cypress Update Manager will enable users to look for updated versions of these software modules and facilitate upgrades.
2. Firmware Library Zip – A zip archive that contains the FX3 firmware libraries, driver sources for serial peripheral modules, header files, example code, firmware conversion utility and documentation. The following firmware source samples are also part of the library zip file.
   • USB Bulk data loopback and source/sink
   • USB Isochronous loopback and source/sink
   • DMA examples: Interleaved and multicast data
   • Serial Interface Loopback: UART, SPI, I2C and I2S
   • Slave FIFO: Synchronous and Asynchronous
   • USB Video Class: Isochronous and Bulk
   • USB Mass Storage Bulk-Only transport
   • USB Audio Class: Input (microphone) device
3. USB Suite Zip – A zip archive containing windows host driver, C++ & C# API libraries, and the control center, bulkloop and streamer applications for 32 bit platforms (Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7) and 64 bit platforms (Windows Vista and Windows 7)
4. FX3 SDK for Linux platforms – A tar archive containing the FX3 firmware libraries and examples, the ARM GNU toolchain, Eclipse IDEs (x64 and x86 versions) and the CyUSB suite for Linux platforms
5. USB Suite for MacOS - A libusb based wrapper library for Mac OS, to facilitate USB host application development.
6. Documentation
   • FX3 Programmer's Manual
   • FX3 API guide
   • FX3 Release Notes
   • Trouble shooting guide

File Title	Language	File Size	Last Updated
FX3 SDK Trouble Shooting Guide	English	245 KB	05/06/2013
EZ-USB FX3 SDK v1.2.3 for Windows	English	284 MB	02/20/2013
EZ-USB FX3 SDK v1.2.3 for Linux	English	306 MB	02/20/2013
FX3 Firmware Library and Applications, v1.2.3	English	15 MB	02/20/2013
FX3 SDK Release Notes, v1.2.3	English	475 KB	02/20/2013
FX3 SDK API Guide, v1.2.3	English	3 MB	02/20/2013
FX3 Programmer's Manual	English	5 MB	02/20/2013
Cypress SuperSpeed USB Suite for Windows, v1.2.2	English	13 MB	01/16/2013
Cypress SuperSpeed USB Suite Release Notes, v1.2.2	English	169 KB	01/16/2013
Cypress CyUsb3.sys Programmers Reference	English	327 KB	11/07/2012
Source code package for Cypress SuperSpeed USB Suite for Windows (CyAPI, CyUSB, CyUSB3) - See ReadMe.txt for details	English	234 KB	10/15/2012
Cypress SuperSpeed USB Suite (Wrapper library for MacOS)	English	437 KB	10/15/2012
Cypress USBSuite Application Development - Quick Start Guide.pdf	English	542 KB	09/18/2012

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