Ace, the stapl player, and usb bitporter drivers, The acx_stapl_player provided with ace, The bitporter usb drivers provided with ace – Achronix Bitporter User Manual
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ACE, the STAPL Player, and USB Bitporter Drivers
Software and Driver Install
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Bitporter User Guide
After the installation completes, the script ends with the following message:
Bitporter USB driver, version x.y.z, installed.
Note:
Linux USB Bitporter connections are currently only supported on CentOS 5 and 6 or RHEL 5
and 6. Other Linux releases are not supported by Achronix, but may work if they include udev.
ACE, the STAPL Player, and USB Bitporter Drivers
Important!
Disconnect any attached Bitporter pods from the host PC before installing the ACE
software suite and associated Bitporter USB drivers.
Important!
Do not install both ACE and the standalone STAPL player on the same machine.
Important!
Be sure to uninstall all previous installations of Achronix software and reboot before
running the ACE Windows installer.
When the ACE software suite is installed, it already includes a copy of the acx_stapl_player
and the Bitporter USB drivers. The installation of ACE is covered in a separate document, the
Achronix Software & License User Guide (UG002).
The acx_stapl_player provided with ACE
After ACE is installed, the associated acx_stapl_player will be found at:
ACE will use the acx_stapl_player found at this location for all Bitporter interactions.
Users may also utilize this acx_stapl_player from the command‐line if desired. (The Windows
installers will automatically add this location to the PATH environment variable.)
Important!
Special note for Linux ACE users:
While ACE itself is a 64‐bit executable, the acx_stapl_player is a 32‐bit executable
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, and
requires 32‐bit shared libraries. Dependencies upon the libraries libX11.so.6 and
libusb-0.1.so.4
must be satisfied.
Example: On a clean CentOS 6.4 x86_64 installation, by calling yum provides with the
libraries listed above, it was determined that the following additional software (each with their
own dependency hierarchies) had to be downloaded and installed from the distro’s repositories:
libX11-1.5.0-4.el6.i686
libusb-0.1.12-23.el6.i686
Achronix strongly recommends getting help from a system administrator before running yum.
The Bitporter USB drivers provided with ACE
The Bitporter USB drivers are present in the ACE software distribution.
Windows
In Windows, the ACE installer will automatically install the Bitporter’s USB drivers if the
ʺBitporter Pod USB Driversʺ checkbox was selected during installation.
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This is due primarily to our JTAG pod vendor’s API limitations. Achronix is working with our
vendors to remove all 32-bit library dependencies for a future version of the acx_stapl_player.