Is there ability to flash Mercury 1 board on Linux?

[mozcelikors]

Hi,
I am one of the early purchasers for your Mercury 1 board and have contacted you a couple of years back regarding Linux support for Mercury board. I am glad that there is Linux support now for your new Mercury 2 board.
I was wondering if there is a chance to program Mercury 1 board with this tool? Hopefully there is one :)

Here is what I did so far;

Add to /etc/udev/rules.d/99-libftdi.rules;

ATTRS{idVendor}="0403", ATTRS{idProduct}="6001", MODE="0660", GROUP="dialout"

Execute;

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules && udevadm trigger

Execute;

sudo rmmod ftdi_sio ; sudo rmmod usbserial ; /media/mozcelikors/ext4/Xilinx\ ISE/mercury2_prog/bin/mercury2_prog -w /media/mozcelikors/ext4/Xilinx\ ISE/aospfpgaconnection_mercury/led_demo.bit

With this I am able to see device is recognized now;

Reading file...
Checking for FTDI devices...1 FTDI devices found
Device 0:
  - Description = 'Mercury FPGA'
  - Serial #    = '268'
  - FTDI Chip   = FT232R @ 12Mbps
  - Opened      = No

ERROR: No Mercury 2 FPGA board found.

Any advice is appreciated. Best of luck in your future endeavours.

[linknum23]

Sorry you are having trouble programming your Mercury 1. The Mercury 1 board uses an entirely different programmer utility that can run on top of the mono runtime in linux. The reason for the different program is that Mercury 1 has a slightly different interface to the flash chip. The Mercury 2 board's interface was redesigned for faster programming. Here's a link to the linux version of the Mercury programmer: https://www.micro-nova.com/s/MercuryProg338_linux.tgz To use the programming utility you will need to install the mono runtime and use mono to run the utility. Here's how I do it on my debian based machine: tar -xvf MercuryProg338_linux.tgz sudo apt install mono-complete -y mono Mercury_Programmer.exe Other resources can be found here: https://www.micro-nova.com/resources-mercury I hope this helps

[mozcelikors]

@linknum23 That definitely helps. Thanks!

One more question, if I may, my Mercury 1 board suddenly stopped holding the flashed data.
When flashed fresh, the bit code works. When plugged off and in again, suddenly in a weird state ( 4 LEDs are half-on, probably Hi-Z state and status LED is orange)
If I reset some amount of times it eventually able to run the flashed bit code correctly, but that is rare.

Do you think I might have damaged the device or is there like a configuration in ISE that I could use to fix this?
Thanks in advance.

[SteveMicroNova]

This sounds like a hardware issue, could you email us at support@micro-nova.com so we can see about correcting this for you?