Re: [Libusbx-devel] Samples: Add FX3 firmware upload support for fxload

2013-03-14 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Pete Batard wrote: > On 2013.03.14 17:21, Tim Roberts wrote: >> I don't know about that. The chips themselves are still running about >> $30 in volume. > > Which I very much expect to drop as production ramps up and competitors > enter the market. I don't think Cy

Re: [Libusbx-devel] Samples: Add FX3 firmware upload support for fxload

2013-03-14 Thread Pete Batard
On 2013.03.14 17:21, Tim Roberts wrote: > I don't know about that. The chips themselves are still running about > $30 in volume. Which I very much expect to drop as production ramps up and competitors enter the market. I don't think Cypress have much competition for now, so the demand for the c

Re: [Libusbx-devel] Samples: Add FX3 firmware upload support for fxload

2013-03-14 Thread Tim Roberts
Pete Batard wrote: > Absolutely. It shouldn't be that difficult to produce a CY7C68013A like > FX3-based board, and sell it for at least an order of magnitude less > than the CYUSB3KIT. I don't know about that. The chips themselves are still running about $30 in volume. Plus, the circuit board

Re: [Libusbx-devel] Samples: Add FX3 firmware upload support for fxload

2013-03-13 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Pete Batard wrote: > On 2013.03.13 05:22, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > http://dx.com/p/d1201-ez-usb-fx2lp-cy7c68013a-usb-development-board-blue-179473 > for less than €10/$13 with free (but very lengthy) shipping. > There's also e-bay where CY7C68013A clones should be eas

Re: [Libusbx-devel] Samples: Add FX3 firmware upload support for fxload

2013-03-13 Thread Pete Batard
On 2013.03.13 05:22, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > It is a simple board and there are many similar boards like this > in the web. Some of them are quite cheap (US$10 - US$20, but the > shipment can be a problem). > http://detail.tmall.com/item.htm?spm=a230r.1.10.1.al4bvD&id=16344323104 > http://item.taobao

Re: [Libusbx-devel] Samples: Add FX3 firmware upload support for fxload

2013-03-12 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 7:20 AM, Pete Batard wrote: >> BTW, I believe quite some of the USB device only use the >> EEPROM for the VID/PID (for Windows driver loading) and then >> it seems to me the firmware hex is still download on the fly to the >> RAM and run from there. > > Yeah, that's what I

Re: [Libusbx-devel] Samples: Add FX3 firmware upload support for fxload

2013-03-12 Thread Pete Batard
On 2013.03.12 05:08, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > I think by "Flashing a firmware" you mean to be able to program the > EEPROM, right? Yeah. Force of habit from dealing with other devices. > In that case, here is a patched version of fxload which can do > that. You may want to take a look at it and inte

Re: [Libusbx-devel] Samples: Add FX3 firmware upload support for fxload

2013-03-11 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Pete Batard wrote: > On 2013.03.11 15:22, Xiaofan Chen wrote: BTW, how good is fxload now? > > Well, for FX2 we're still missing the capability to flash a firmware, > which is why regardless of how far we we get with FX3, I'm likely to > keep the issue open u

Re: [Libusbx-devel] Samples: Add FX3 firmware upload support for fxload

2013-03-11 Thread Pete Batard
On 2013.03.11 15:22, Xiaofan Chen wrote: >>> BTW, how good is fxload now? Well, for FX2 we're still missing the capability to flash a firmware, which is why regardless of how far we we get with FX3, I'm likely to keep the issue open until I get a change to sort that last part out. Last time I t

Re: [Libusbx-devel] Samples: Add FX3 firmware upload support for fxload

2013-03-11 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 11:03 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: >> BTW, how good is fxload now? I have never used this myself, >> I use Cypress tools under Windows and cycfx2load under >> Linux and Mac OS X for FX2/FX2LP. Last time I tried fxload >> it

Re: [Libusbx-devel] Samples: Add FX3 firmware upload support for fxload

2013-03-11 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > BTW, how good is fxload now? I have never used this myself, > I use Cypress tools under Windows and cycfx2load under > Linux and Mac OS X for FX2/FX2LP. Last time I tried fxload > it did not work well whereas cycfx2prog (based on libusb-0.1 >

Re: [Libusbx-devel] Samples: Add FX3 firmware upload support for fxload

2013-03-11 Thread Xiaofan Chen
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Pete Batard wrote: > Hi, > > I just pushed a patch, kindly provided by Federico Manzan, that adds FX3 > support to the libusbx fxload sample. See libusbx issue #29 for details. > > Copying Markus, as he expressed interest in FX3 support in the past, and > is lucky

[Libusbx-devel] Samples: Add FX3 firmware upload support for fxload

2013-03-10 Thread Pete Batard
Hi, I just pushed a patch, kindly provided by Federico Manzan, that adds FX3 support to the libusbx fxload sample. See libusbx issue #29 for details. Copying Markus, as he expressed interest in FX3 support in the past, and is lucky enough to have access to such hardware. Regards, /Pete --