ASTRIBANK_HEXLOAD

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NAME

astribank_tool − Xorcom Astribank (xpp) firmware loader

SYNOPSIS

astribank_tool -D device-path <-F|-p> [options] hexfile

astribank_tool [-h]

DESCRIPTION

astribank_hexload is a second-stage firmware loader for Xorcom Astribanks. Note that some older models use fpga_load(8) instead.

It is used to load a file in the Intel HEX format into a Xorcom Astribank. It can be used to load either an FPGA firmware or a PIC firmware. It is normally run by the script xpp_fxloader.

OPTIONS

-D device-path

Required. The device to read from/write to. On modern UDEV-based system this is usually /dev/bus/usb/bus_num/device_num, where bus_num and device_num are the first two numbers in the output of lsusb(8). On older systems that use usbfs, it is usually /proc/bus/usb/bus_num/device_num.

-F

The firmware to load is a FPGA firmware.

-p

The firmware to load is a PIC firmware.

-v

Increase verbosity. May be used multiple times.

-d mask

Set debug mask to mask. Default is 0, 0xFF is "everything".

-h

Displays usage message.

SEE ALSO

fxload(8), lsusb(8), astribank_tool(8), fpga_load(8)

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com> . Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.