ben Posted April 28, 2012 Report Share Posted April 28, 2012 Hi all, trying to get my Sega Master System not dependant on external storage, I wanted to upload the game roms through USB into the SRAM chip. I first devised an AVR8 script that read mem files over UART. Horribly slow. Then I made a custom, VHDL UART core to do the same thing. Better, but still very slow (unstable at high UART speeds): 2Mbits of binary data is ~8Mbits of mem ascii data, that's over a minute @ 115200 bauds... So I decided to use the JTAG interface, modifying papilio-prog 8) It works just as SPI Flash programming, except you should use -B and -S (rather than -b and -s). You'll also want to set "-S p", as verify is not implemented yet. That gives: papilio-prog -S p -B bscan_sram.bit -f [your binary file] The file is read as a sequence of 16bit words, that are put at address 0, 1, 2, etc. The whole chip is programmed in a few seconds. You can get the forked version of Papilio-Loader, with the new vhd/bit files and the modified C++ code on github : https://github.com/ben0109/Papilio-Loader I'd be glad to have your feedback on this. Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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