Open janschiefer opened 7 months ago
I have already seen this board, and I think I have to bought one (or ask for free sample ;-) ). The main issue with gowin's stuff is the totally lake of documentations, most of the time you have partial/incomplete, wrong documentations.
Do you speak Mandarin? ... https://cdn.gowinsemi.com.cn/UG1003.pdf
Not really, but this doc explain how to use a gowin's library to use this chip no? My interest isn't to use an external library but implement the protocol ;-) But I assume wireshark will be my friend.
I have received my board today. After a quick search on gowin website I have found a doc about protocol (instructions to send). It looks really similar to FTDI's MPSSE. I think it's not possible to use directly libftdi but this seems not really hard to implement. I will try it ASAP.
Very nice!
I also bought this cool board, I'm trying to use it with the toolchain yosis+nextpnr+gowin_pack+openFPGAloader. The GW1NSR-4C is supported by the apicula project but I'm struggling to flash the bitstream to the FPGA through the Gowin Programmer as it is complaining about a wrong ID CODE and I don't know why.
So I'm waiting that the GWU2X will be supported by openFPGAloader because it is a really cool project, I can help with testing stuff.
Also, I found a little bit of documentation here that should be helpful to add the support.
Thank you.
Hi. Gowin GWU2X and lilygo T-FPGA are now supported. Is it good to you?
Yes, thank you, I tried flashing to SRAM with -m
and it works, when I try to write to flash with -f
I get, during the Erase FLASH phase, Write failed with error -7, Failed to program FPGA: std:exception
Thanks for your feedback: I will try with a different computer to see if it's an hardware issue. Could you share your setup ? OS / VM ? Thnaks
I tried with this example https://github.com/Xinyuan-LilyGO/T-FPGA/tree/main/example/FPGA/led/src. I synthesized it with the Gowin IDE educational 1.9.9 on Windows and then I used Ubuntu 22.04 on WSL to flash it, using openFPGALoader
Thanks for informations. Is it possible to you to test with a native linux? I have seen lot of issues with WSL (and I have to find why).
I noticed this strange behavior, it seems that when I use the verbose flag the IDCODE gets corrupted
And then, trying to detect the FPGA with openFPGALoader --detect --cable gwu2x
gives the same error
This is the output I get when, after rebooting the device, I try to flash it with -f -v
so in verbose mode
This timeout (-7) is fixed: stupid optimisation before pushing: 65356== 0x10000 ie needs 17bits but I have used a 16bits variable... But now it seems to have a problem with the bitstream: I obtain an error (mismatch between read checksum and computed). Maybe another issue with a variable or a size. But I have to check if the same FPGA and an FTDI I have a similar error or if it's gwu2x related bug.
If you have an FTDI and a 13-pin flat cable you can directly access JTAG lanes using the white connector as you can see here
Unfortunately no. I will switch to my tangNano 4k to check before continuing to debug this board.
With tangnano4k Flash sequence is working: I have to recheck everything here to see where is issue with gwu2x.
Hi,
I just picked up an interesting and cheap FPGA board - Lilygo T-FPGA with an Gowin GW1NSR-LV4CQN48PC6/15 and an ESP-S3 as an IoT solution.
Interestingly this board seems t use the relatively new GWU2X application specific chip as an USB to JTAG-brigde.
Any chance flashing this board over USB will be supported in the future?
Specs: https://www.lilygo.cc/products/t-fpga GIthub repository: https://github.com/Xinyuan-LilyGO/T-FPGA/tree/main Board schematic: https://github.com/Xinyuan-LilyGO/T-FPGA/blob/main/schematic/T-FPGA-V1.0%20CORE.pdf Documentation for the GWU2X USB to JTAG bridge: https://alcom.be/uploads/Gowin-UG1000-1.0E_GWU2X-Datasheet.pdf