Downloading XESS FPGA Board Software Tools

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From XESS

Software Date Archive Contact
XuLA-py: XSLOAD utility for the XuLA-200 board written in Python. As such, it will let you download bitstreams to the FPGA or the flash on either Windows or linux.

This utility was originally written by James Bowman and then modified by Hector Peraza to add serial flash capabilities and to correct problems.

12/28/2011 ZIP Email
XSTOOLs Version 5.1.4 (full): Setup file for the utilities that download and exercise the XuLA2, XuLA, XSUSB, XSA, XSB, XSV, XS40 and XS95 Boards. Also installs board manuals, design examples and other documentation. For 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7, Vista, WinXP and Win2K. 09/04/2012 EXE Email
XSTOOLs Version 5.1.4 (executables): Setup file for the utilities that download and exercise the XuLA2, XuLA, XSUSB, XSA, XSB, XSV, XS40 and XS95 Boards. For 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7, Vista, WinXP and Win2K. 09/04/2012 EXE Email
XSTOOLs Version 5.1.3 (full): Setup file for the utilities that download and exercise the XuLA, XSUSB, XSA, XSB, XSV, XS40 and XS95 Boards. Also installs board manuals, design examples and other documentation. For 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7, Vista, WinXP and Win2K.

***NOTE*** The winusb.dll file was missing in the previous version of this installer, so get this updated version and re-install if you're having problems.

08/19/2011 EXE Email
XSTOOLs Version 5.1.3 (executables): Setup file for the utilities that download and exercise the XuLA, XSUSB, XSA, XSB, XSV, XS40 and XS95 Boards. For 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7, Vista, WinXP and Win2K.

***NOTE*** The winusb.dll file was missing in the previous version of this installer, so get this updated version and re-install if you're having problems.

08/19/2011 EXE Email
XSTOOLs Version 5.1.2: setup file for the utilities that download and exercise the XS40, XS95, XSV, XSA, XSB and XSUSB Boards. For 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7, Vista, WinXP and Win2K. 05/14/2010 EXE Email
XSTOOLs Version 5.1.1: setup file for the utilities that download and exercise the XS40, XS95, XSV, XSA, XSB and XSUSB Boards. For  WinXP, Win2K, WinME, Win98 and Win95. (This version uses libusb32 so it won't work on Windows 7 and Vista.) 10/03/2009 EXE Email
Img2xes: Perl script that converts various image formats into the XES hex format for downloading to the XS Board RAM. 08/29/2005 ZIP Email
XSA UCF: UCF files for the FPGA and CPLD on the XSA-50 and XSA-100 Board. 03/09/2004 ZIP Email
XSB UCF: UCF files for the FPGA and CPLD on the XSB-300E Board. 03/09/2004 ZIP Email
UCF Translator: This Perl script translates the pin assignments in a UCF file for the XS95 Board into an equivalent UCF file for the XS40 Board, or vice-versa. 12/18/1998 PL Email
 

From Third-Parties

Software Date Archive Contact
Xilinx "makefiles": A translation of the XESS makefiles by Eric Anderson at CMU for the SCons tool. These were built for use with Xilinx ISE 12.2 and have a few hard-coded tool paths, so some modification may be necessary. 03/02/2011 LINK Email
XSLOAD for FreeBSD: FreeBSD version of XSLOAD written in Python by James Bowman.

***NOTE*** Don't use this utility for the XuLA board! Use the XuLA-py utility shown above.

11/07/2010 HTML Email
XSTOOLS 4.0.6 for linux: Linux version of XSTOOLS 4.0.6 by Chris Klippel. 11/13/2006 TGZ Email
TGA2XES: A program by Charles Batiste that translates TGA files into an XES file that can be used by the VGA generator example. 08/29/2005 ZIP Email
bin2exo: A small program by Roger Dickerson that generates a Motorola s-record EXO file from a binary file. 04/24/2003 ZIP Email
hexgen: A small program by Luke Krasnoff that produces a hex file that can be used by the VGA generator example. 06/06/2002 CPP Email
XSTOOLS 4.0 for linux: Linux version of XSTOOLS V4.0 by Rene van Leuken. 01/14/2002 HTML
XSTOOLS 3.0 for linux: Linux version of XSTOOLS V3.3 by Daniel Bretz. 02/19/2001 ZIP
IPXS: Image processing tools for the XS Board. 12/13/1999 HTM
unixutil: UNIX utilities that run on DOS. 07/22/2000 ZIP