Problems with Spartan Evaluation Board

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I have got the Altium LiveDesign Evaluation Board with Spartan 3 (3S1000).
When I am trying to download a project in to the board with iMPACT the first times I am tring to download the program I have a FAILED and then everything its ok. I don’t know what is going wrong.

In FAILED operation the iMPACTS says
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value of MODE pin M0 : 1
value of MODE pin M1 : 0
value of MODE pin M2 : 1
value of CFG_RDY (INIT_B) : 1
DONEIN input from DONE pin : 0
ID_ERROR : 0
RESERVED : 0
RESERVED : 0
INFO:iMPACT:2219 - Status register values:
INFO:iMPACT - 0011 0000 1011 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
INFO:iMPACT:579 - '1': Completed downloading bit file to device.
INFO:iMPACT:580 - '1':Checking done pin ....done.
'1': Programming terminated, Done did not go high.
PROGRESS_END - End Operation.
Elapsed time = 13 sec.




In Program Done operation the iMPACT says
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value of MODE pin M0 : 1
value of MODE pin M1 : 0
value of MODE pin M2 : 1
value of CFG_RDY (INIT_B) : 1
DONEIN input from DONE pin : 1
ID_ERROR : 0
RESERVED : 0
RESERVED : 0
INFO:iMPACT:2219 - Status register values:
INFO:iMPACT - 0011 0111 1011 1000 0000 0000 0000 0000
INFO:iMPACT:579 - '1': Completed downloading bit file to device.
INFO:iMPACT:580 - '1':Checking done pin ....done.
'1': Programmed successfully.
PROGRESS_END - End Operation.
Elapsed time = 13 sec.

impact spartan board done did not go high problem

what version of IMPACT are you using ?

try to upgrade for newer versions.

also try to use a xilinx cable instead. if you can put a hand on the latest USB
platform Cable You Can Achieve Real High Speeds

altium built there own cable, and it look a bit amature.

spartan evaluators

I use the Xilinx WebPack 8.1.03i

done did not go high spartan

every time you star impact

u must do cable check up and cable established message will come then u start with downloading the bits.
may be this may be the cause.


Regards
Shankar

donein input from done pin spartan

I always getting the cable established message but then… nothing. I have to press the download 3 times to get a Programmed successfully message.