[hpsdr] Mercury firmware update. How?

[Steven Doyle]

Hi

I did manage to upgrade Mecury to v2.6, but not using the technique 
described in the readme in USBBlaster-Binaries
as I was unable to get that to work, maybe its a vista thing I don't know.

What I did was follow the instructions that Phil gave in the Dec 27 
teamspeak. Basically I purchased a clone altera USB Blaster from ebay for 
about $20 and connected that to the upper 10 pin connector next to the fpga 
on Mecury, pin 1 is at the top. I then loaded the mecury v2.6 pof file 
(svn://206.216.146.154/svn/repos_sdr_hpsdr/trunk/Mercury V2/Mercury.pof) 
into quartus 2, selected the active serial mode and successfully uploaded 
the firmware that way. After a power cycle everything was ok.

no need to remove boards from Atlas or reposition them.

hope this helps

regards

Steve Doyle
G1 YLB


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Bade" <kd8b at thebades.net>
To: "Forrest Myers" <femyers01 at bellsouth.net>
Cc: <hpsdr at lists.hpsdr.org>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 1:19 AM
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Mercury firmware update. How?


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> Forrest;
>
> You need several things first.
> If you do not have it already... download and install TortoiseSVN
> <http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tortoisesvn/TortoiseSVN-1.5.8.15348-win32-svn-1.5.5.msi?download>
>
>
> You need to download the Altera Programming tools from,
> <https://www.altera.com/support/software/download/programming/quartus2/dnl-quartus2_programmer.jsp> 
> You will need to create an account and log in
>
>
> You also need to create an SVN folder from the repository;
>
> svn://206.216.146.154/svn/repos_sdr_hpsdr/trunk/USBBlaster-Binaries
>
> Do this by creating a blank folder on your desktop and right clicking and 
> pointing the svn build to the repository above
>
> **********************************************************************************************************************************
> You need to follow the instructions in the README.txt file you find there 
> ( in the above directory) as mentioned.
> ***********************************************************************************************************************************
>
> If all is well run the batch file after completing the driver installs...
>
> The batch file will run and if it finds your board it will give you 
> choices on which firmware to load..
>
> This is all setup for XP 32 bit ... Vista and Windows 7 require special 
> handling...
>
> You need to remove all but Ozzy and Mercury and put them in the slots 
> specified. You also need to install the jumper specified on Mercury.
>
> I definitely would NOT change the default directory install of the Quartus 
> Programmer as the batch file will not be able to find what it needs...
>
> Doug
> KD8B
>
>
>
>
>
>
> At 07:27 PM 2/22/2009, you wrote:
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>>I've been seeing queries and replies regarding updating the firmware on 
>>Mercury. Where can I find information on how to do this and how to find 
>>out what the software version on my Mercury is?
>>
>>73,
>>Forrest
>>AG4ND
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