FPGA Board Drivers

With some platforms and boards, it may be necessary to install a system driver to make the board accessible by the programmer. If this becomes necessary, use the apio drivers install command to install the necessary driver.

Apio comes with two kinds of drivers called 'ftdi' and 'serial' and the table below summarized the differences between them.

Drivers installation is not required of Mac OSX.

If the FPGA board is shown in the device list with --unavail-- manufactuer or product string, it's typically an indication that the proper driver need to be install.

	FTDI drivers	Serial drivers
Platforms	Linux, Windows	Linux, Windows
Driver install	apio drivers install ftdi	apio drivers install serial
Driver uninstall	apio drivers uninstall ftdi	apio drivers uninstall serial
List devices	apio devices usb	apio devices serial