Using Impact to program Basys2 board

[serge1973]

I'm trying to program my basys2 board with impact but the program fails. It appears to recognize the chip I don't understand why it wouldn't load the program to the chip. I have attached a screenshot to see what the errors are. Any help will be appreciated.

Thanks!

[sLowe]

Hey Serge,

Look like your device thinks it is a 500 device instead of 250 or 100.

What is the rev on your basys 2? It can be found below the white rectangle on your board. It would be interesting to try to set your part in the project settings to xc3s500e.

Thanks,

Sam

[serge1973]

Hi Sam,

I think it's revD

[sLowe]

Its very weird that your board reads in as a xc3s500t device. Rev. D boards are 250t. When I attach my basys2 through impact's boundary scan wizard, I get the following console output. So we can see that it reads in as a 250 device and not a 500. I would recommend that you reinstall the cable drivers and try again. If that does not work and you are still seeing the wrong device, maybe get in touch with Digilent costumer support.

-Sam

INFO:iMPACT - Digilent Plugin: JTAG Port Number: 0
INFO:iMPACT - Digilent Plugin: JTAG Clock Frequency: 4000000 Hz
Attempting to identify devices in the boundary-scan chain configuration...
INFO:iMPACT - Current time: 11/12/2015 12:08:33 PM
PROGRESS_START - Starting Operation.
Identifying chain contents...'0': : Manufacturer's ID = Xilinx xcf02s, Version : 13
INFO:iMPACT:1777 - 
Reading C:/Xilinx/14.7/ISE_DS/ISE/xcf/data/xcf02s.bsd...
INFO:iMPACT:501 - '1': Added Device xcf02s successfully.
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'1': : Manufacturer's ID = Xilinx xc3s250e, Version : 1
INFO:iMPACT:1777 - 
Reading C:/Xilinx/14.7/ISE_DS/ISE/spartan3e/data/xc3s250e.bsd...
INFO:iMPACT:501 - '1': Added Device xc3s250e successfully.
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done.
PROGRESS_END - End Operation.
Elapsed time =      1 sec.