
ACE, the STAPL Player, and USB Bitporter Drivers Software and Driver Install
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Aftertheinstallationcompletes,thescriptendswiththefollowingmessage:
Bitporter USB driver, version x.y.z, installed.
Note: LinuxUSBBitporterconnectionsarecurrentlyonlysupportedonCentOS5and6orRHEL 5
and6.OtherLinuxreleasesarenotsupportedbyAchronix,butmayworkiftheyincludeudev.
ACE, the STAPL Player, and USB Bitporter Drivers
Important! DisconnectanyattachedBitporterpodsfromthehostPCbeforeinstallingtheACE
softwaresuiteandassociatedBitporterUSBdrivers.
Important! DonotinstallbothACEandthestandaloneSTAPLplayeronthesamemachine.
Important! BesuretouninstallallpreviousinstallationsofAchronixsoftwareandrebootbefore
runningtheACE
Windowsinstaller.
WhentheACE softwaresuiteisinstalled,it alreadyincludesacopyoftheacx_stapl_player
andthe BitporterUSBdrivers.TheinstallationofACEiscoveredinaseparatedocument, the
AchronixSoftware&LicenseUserGuide(UG002).
The acx_stapl_player provided with ACE
AfterACEisinstalled,theassociatedacx_stapl_playerwillbefoundat:
<ace_install_dir>/system/cmd/acx_stapl_player
ACEwillusetheacx_stapl_playerfoundatthislocationforallBitporterinteractions.
Usersmayalsoutilizethisacx_stapl_playerfromthecommand‐lineifdesired.(TheWindows
installerswillautomaticallyaddthislocationtothePATHenvironmentvariable.)
Important! Special note for Linux ACE users:
WhileACE
itselfisa64‐bitexecutable,theacx_stapl_playerisa32‐bitexecutable
*
,and
requires32‐bitsharedlibraries.DependenciesuponthelibrarieslibX11.so.6and
libusb-0.1.so.4mustbesatisfied.
Example:OnacleanCentOS6.4x86_64installation,bycallingyum provideswiththe
librarieslistedabove,itwasdeterminedthatthefollowingadditionalsoftware(eachwiththeir
owndependencyhierarchies)hadtobedownloaded
andinstalledfromthedistro’srepositories:
libX11-1.5.0-4.el6.i686
libusb-0.1.12-23.el6.i686
Achronixstronglyrecommendsgettinghelpfromasystemadministratorbeforerunningyum.
The Bitporter USB drivers provided with ACE
TheBitporterUSBdriversarepresentintheACEsoftwaredistribution.
Windows
In Windows, the ACE installer will automatically ins tall the Bitporter’s USB drivers if the
ʺBitporterPodUSBDriversʺcheckboxwasselectedduringinstallation.
*.
This is due primarily to our JTAG pod vendor’s API limitations. Achronix is working with our
vendors to remove all 32-bit library dependencies for a future version of the acx_stapl_player.
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