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:

1. Insert the SD card. Take note of which drive letter it is assigned.
2. 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:

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
   2. <yourFile.bin>: the binary FPGA configuration file
   3. </dev/diskX>: device descriptor for the SD card
2. 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)
   

3. Repeat for additional .bin config files if needed.
4. Eject the SD card in the Finder (if it's mounted).