=== Windows ===

A port of dd is available for Windows from XX. We have sucessfully tested verison 0.6b3 on Win 7 64-bit.

Download dd.exe from the site above. Rename it win-dd.exe (to avoid conflicting with the dd.exe included with XPS) and place it somewhere in your Windows path.

'''Finding the SD card descriptor:'''[[BR]]
 1. Insert the SD card. Take note of which drive letter it is assigned.
 1. Open a command prompt and run {{{win-dd --list}}}. The output will be similar to:
{{{
C:\xps_proj\SDK_Workspace\MyProj_hw_platform>win-dd --list
rawwrite dd for windows version 0.6beta3.
Written by John Newbigin <jn@it.swin.edu.au>
This program is covered by terms of the GPL Version 2.

Win32 Available Volume Information
\\.\Volume{72603844-0595-11e1-822c-806e6f6e6963}\
  link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume2
  fixed media
  Not mounted

\\.\Volume{72603845-0595-11e1-822c-806e6f6e6963}\
  link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume3
  fixed media
  Mounted on \\.\c:

\\.\Volume{9654066c-60bd-11e1-9757-001018af5a78}\
  link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume4
  removeable media
  Mounted on \\.\f:

\\.\Volume{72603848-0595-11e1-822c-806e6f6e6963}\
  link to \\?\Device\CdRom0
  CD-ROM
  Mounted on \\.\d:


NT Block Device Objects
\\?\Device\CdRom0
  size is 2147483647 bytes
\\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition0
  link to \\?\Device\Harddisk0\DR0
  Fixed hard disk media. Block size = 512
  size is 500107862016 bytes
\\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition1
  link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume1
  Fixed hard disk media. Block size = 512
  size is 41094144 bytes
\\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition2
  link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume2
\\?\Device\Harddisk0\Partition3
  link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume3
\\?\Device\Harddisk1\Partition0
  link to \\?\Device\Harddisk1\DR1
  Removable media other than floppy. Block size = 512
  size is 1977614336 bytes
\\?\Device\Harddisk1\Partition1
  link to \\?\Device\HarddiskVolume4
  Removable media other than floppy. Block size = 512
  size is 32002048 bytes

Virtual input devices
 /dev/zero   (null data)
 /dev/random (pseudo-random data)
 -           (standard input)

Virtual output devices
 -           (standard output)
 /dev/null   (discard the data)
}}}
 3. In this system the SD card is mounted as '''F:''' in Windows Explorer. According to the output above, the corresponding device descriptor is '''\\?\Device\HarddiskVolume7'''.

'''NOTE''': The actual device descriptor on your system is probably different than this example. '''Always''' check the current descriptor before copying to the SD card.


'''Copying the .bin file:'''[[BR]]
 1. Run this command, replacing the last three arguments with the correct values:
{{{
win-dd bs=512 seek=<N> if=<yourFile.bin> of=</dev/diskX> --progress
}}}
  1. ''<N>'': depends on the target slot number; see the list above
  1. ''<yourFile.bin>'': the binary FPGA configuration file
  1. ''</dev/diskX>'': device descriptor for the SD card
 1. If successful, dd should report the following (the time/throughput values will differ):
{{{
18032+1 records in
18032+1 records out
9232444 bytes transferred in 8.503631 secs (1085706 bytes/sec)
}}}
 1. Repeat for additional .bin config files if needed.
 1. Eject the SD card in the Finder (if it's mounted).