15.1.5 Programmer Settings and Operations

To view the Programmer Settings dialog box, in the Libero SoC Design Flow window, expand Configure Hardware, double click Configure Programmer or right click Configure Programmer and choose Programmer Settings.

For the JTAG interface, you can set specific voltage and force TCK frequency values for your programmer in this dialog box. For the SPI Target interface, you can force SCK frequency values for your programmer. SPI Target mode is supported by FlashPro5 for SmartFusion 2 and IGLOO 2 devices, and by FlashPro6 for SmartFusion 2, IGLOO 2, and PolarFire devices. SPI Target mode is not supported for RTG4 devices. JTAG is the default interface.

The Programmer Settings dialog box includes options for FlashPro6/5/4/3/3X. Limitations of the TCK frequency for the selected programmer are:

• FlashPro6: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 MHz
• FlashPro5: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 15, 30 MHz
• FlashPro4: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 MHz
• FlashPro3/3X: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 MHz TCK frequency limits by target device (refer to the target device data sheet)

During execution, the frequency set by the FREQUENCY statement in the PDB/STAPL file overrides the TCK frequency settings you select in the Programmer Settings dialog box, unless you also select the Force TCK Frequency check box.

Limitation of the SCK frequency for the selected programmer are: 1.00, 2.00, 2.50, 3.33, 4.00, 5.00, 6.67, 8.00, 10.00, 13.33, and 20.00 MHz

Right-click a programmer and choose Ping.

Before performing a self-test, connect the programmer to the self-test board that came with your programmer. Then right-click the programmer you want to self-test and choose Self Test.

The scan chain operation scans and analyzes the JTAG chain connected to programmers you selected and checks that a scanned chain matches the chain configured in FlashPro Express.

To scan a chain, right-click the programmer you want to scan and choose Scan and check chain.

After loading a job project, you can enable, disable, or remove a programmer, as well as ping, self-test, run scan, and check chain on any of the connected programmers. These actions are available in the right-click menu for each programmer in the programmer column.

Check the check box next to a programmer in the Programmer column to enable the programmer or uncheck the check box to disable the programmer.

Enter a new programmer name in the Programmer window to rename the programmer. By default, the programmer name is the same as the programmer ID.

To remove a programmer, right-click the programmer and choose Remove.

FlashPro Express supports the following programming actions:

• DEVICE_INFO - This action queries the device and gets the information about type and family of device, information about design programmed on the device (if any), the number of times the device has been programmed, information about security settings and prints out digests of various components/segments.
  Attention: If the erase operation is interrupted for any reason, the cycle count value is lost. However, the device can still be programmed.
• ENC_DATA_AUTHENTICATION - This is visible when each device in the chain contains encrypted bit stream files. Selecting this action checks each bit stream file for authentication.
• ERASE
• PROGRAM - This action programs the bitstream file on the device and the resulting programming log contains information about component digests that are generated while programming the bitstream file as well as digests that are read out from device after the bitstream has been programmed. The log also contains the entire bitstream digest that has been precalculated during bitstream file generation.
  Attention: The component digests printed during programming differ in value and count from the digests that are read out from the device.
• READ_IDCODE
• VERIFY

To select a programming action, select an action from the Programming Action drop-down menu in FlashPro Express, as shown in the following figure.