PC Drivers

The LogicBox communicates with the PC through a USB interface. Depending on the LogicBox model different drivers will be needed. The main platform supported is windows. Even though there are drivers and software for Linux (for the LogicBox DL701 and DL708) we cannot help if you are having troubles with it.

DL701 and DL708

This LogicBox uses a USB 1.1 chip from FTDI. This LogicBox model works under Linux, Mac and Windows.

Linux Installer

Mac Installer

Windows XP/7/32-Bits/64-Bits Installer

DL706 and DL709

This LogicBox uses a USB 2.0 chip from Cypress.

Windows 7

New driver for Windows 7 64-Bits with Digital Signature!

Windows XP/7/32-Bits/64-Bits Installer

Windows 10 home

If your windows is home edition, for other version read down.

 toubleshoots-> Advanced options -> UEFI Firmware settings

1° go to the UEFI Firmware settings in BIOS and disable Security Boot Configuration. This step must be done to avoid errors in step 2

 Security -> Security Boot Configuration -> Change to Customization

2° disable the integrity checks and go to driver test SIGNING mode. Open cmd as administrator and run:

 bcdedit.exe -set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS
 bcdedit.exe -set TESTSIGNING ON

3° install the driver (may require a restart, you have to see that the laptop is in test mode, see desktop bottom corner!)

4° Open the device manager, an look for a unknown/other device called DL706/DL709, right click it and select Update Driver Software

5° Select Browse my computer for driver software

6° Navigate to the folder FX2Driver_Install\whl\x64 for windows 8 64-bits or FX2Driver_Install\whl\x86 for windows 8 32-bits and click Next

7° Select Install this driver software anyway and that is all.

8° Go again to UEFY Firmware Settings and reset to default the Secure boot Configuration

Windows 8/10 educational or professional

The digital Signature for windows 7 is not working under windows 8/10. In order to install an unsigned driver, you have to start Windows in "Disable Driver Signature Enforcement" mode. After that, the driver can be installed and the next time you start Windows the "Driver Signature Enforcement" will be enable again, but the driver will still work.

1° Download the installation files and extract it. Do not run the install.bat

Windows XP/7/32-Bits/64-Bits Installer


2° Click restart and push the key shift at the same time, windows will show this window, click trobleshoot




3° click advanced options




4° click startup settings


 

5° click restart button




6° Choose disable driver signature enforcement




7° Open the device manager, an look for a unknown device called DL706, right click it and select Update Driver Software


8° Select Browse my computer for driver software


9° Navigate to the folder FX2Driver_Install\whl\x64 for windows 8 64-bits or FX2Driver_Install\whl\x86 for windows 8 32-bits and click Next


10° Select Install this driver software anyway and that is all.

Linux

The LogicBox is now running under Linux. All test are done with ubuntu but should work with others Linux distributions. The open source library "libusb " is used in order to control the LogicBox. To install the library and give access to the LogicBox to all user follow this installations instructions:

Install the libusb library

 sudo apt-get install libusb-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-1.0-0

Install the C++ compiler

sudo apt-get install g++

Install the LogicBox source code

 sudo apt-get install subversion
 svn checkout http://hwstar.physi.uni-heidelberg.de/svn/LB_C++/trunk/

Make the LogicBox accessible to all users

 echo SUBSYSTEMS=='"'usb'"', ATTRS{idVendor}=='"'16dc'"', ATTRS{idProduct}=='"'0013'"', GROUP='"'plugdev'"', MODE='"'0666'"' > 20-LogicBox.rules
 echo SUBSYSTEMS=='"'usb'"', ATTRS{idVendor}=='"'0403'"', ATTRS{idProduct}=='"'6001'"', GROUP='"'plugdev'"', MODE='"'0666'"' >> 20-LogicBox.rules
 echo SUBSYSTEMS=='"'usb'"', ATTRS{idVendor}=='"'0403'"', ATTRS{idProduct}=='"'b990'"', GROUP='"'plugdev'"', MODE='"'0666'"' >> 20-LogicBox.rules
 sudo mv 20-LogicBox.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/

Check the libusb installation library

Check the LogicBox. It should show one USB device with ID 0013:16dc or ID 6001:b990

 lsusb

If this doesn't help, add following 2 lines to a file like /etc/udev/rules.d/NM-my_usb.rules

where NM is some two-digit number, like 30.

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="16dc", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0013", MODE="0666", RUN+="/usr/bin/logger allowing access to: $devpath"
ACTION=="add", KERNEL=="ttyUSB*", SUBSYSTEM=="tty", ATTRS{idVendor}=="16dc", ATTRS{idProduct}=="0013", MODE="0666", RUN+="/usr/bin/logger allowing access to: $devpath"

JTAG Kabel in Linux

Here are the instructions how to install the JTAG driver and software on a Linux PC. or here

On a Windows PC up to Windows 7 is the installation simple, on Windows 10 is to our experience impossible.

If the PC will be used only for programming and not for compilation, select Lab Tools in the installation process!