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authorTimothy Pearson <kb9vqf@pearsoncomputing.net>2012-10-01 21:07:55 -0500
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+Copyright (c) 2005 Juan Pablo D. Borgna <jpborgna en inti gov ar>
+Copyright (c) 2001, 2002 by David Sullins [bitinfo code]
+Copyright (c) 2006 Salvador E. Tropea <salvador en inti gov ar>
+Copyright (c) 2005-2006 Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Industrial
+
+ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation; version 2.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
+ 02111-1307, USA
+
+dumpbit:
+-------
+ Dumpbit its a simple program wich takes a .bit file generated by
+ Xilinx tools and dumps the binary stream in a file.
+
+bit2svf:
+-------
+ This program is used for generate a SVF file with the needed
+ sequence for store the contents of a Xilinx .bit file inside some
+ PROM or FPGA.
+
+Working mode:
+ A template file with instructions for generate the svf file is
+ used. A different template is used for each different algorithm.
+ The format specification can be found in a README file inside
+ the "templates/" dir wich also has two samples.
+
+bitinfo:
+-------
+ This program was written by Sullins [davesullins@earthlink.net] and is
+ used for read the header of the Xilinx bit files.
+ Its internally used by bit2svf and dumpbit.
+ The full distribution with its documentation can be found inside the
+ bitinfo-3.0 directory.
+
+jbit:
+----
+ This script, using bit2svf, generates a temporal SVF file for the
+ specified device with the specified bit file and then uses the program
+ JTAG for transfering it this file. When finish it erases the temp file.
+ It was created for simplify the process of programming a Xilinx device
+ with GPL tools.
+