Silicon Sculptor
Overview
Silicon Sculptor enables field programming of Microchip’s field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for proof of concept up to the largest production runs. Microchip offers Silicon Sculptor 3 and Silicon Sculptor 4 programmers for production programming. Silicon Sculptor I and Silicon Sculptor II have been discontinued. Read more about product Customer Notifications.
The Silicon Sculptor software (SculptW) is designed to operate with both and Silicon Sculptor 3 and SiliconSculptor 4 programmers. Concurrent programming from a single PC can only support a maximum of two Silicon Sculptor programmers connected to a single PC, and the adapter modules on both programmers must be identical. You can connect Silicon Sculptor 3 or Silicon Sculptor 4 programmers via a powered USB hub to a single PC (you can connect up to 12 programmers to a single PC) for concurrent programming. All the adapter modules on such a concurrent chain must be identical.
Starting from Silicon Sculptor software version v5.18.0, a new feature called Prebroadcast was introduced for RTAX and Axcelerator families. In Prebroadcast programming is only done in broadcast mode even for a single device. The purpose of this feature is to minimize programming failures due to PC/Programmer communication-type issues by sending all the programming file records and associated code to the programming site prior to programming the DUT. If the broadcast operation fails for any reason the DUT is saved since it was not programmed.
Device Supports
Silicon Sculptor Programming Support| Silicon Sculptor 3 Programmer | Silicon Sculptor 4 Programmer | |
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| Software Versions | Silicon Sculptor versions from v4.59.2 to 5.22.14 | Silicon Sculptor v6.1.0 and later |
| Compatible Adaptor Modules |
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| Supported Devices | SmartFusion2, IGLOO2, IGLOO, ProASIC3, SmartFusion, Fusion, ProASICPLUS, AntiFuse, RTAX, RTSX,RTProASIC3 and ProASIC FPGAs | |
| USB 2.0 high speed interface | |
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| Concurrent Programming | Program 12 FPGA devices from a single PC | |
| Programmer Memory | 1Gb | 2Gb |
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Minimum System Requirement (Silicon Sculptor3/4)
- Pentium III or higher processor
- 1 GB of available memory
- USB 2.0 port
- 50 MB of available hard disk space
- SVGA 256-color and 800x600 or higher resolution
- For Windows operating systems, you must have Admin rights to the local workstation for installation purposes
Software
Silicon Sculptor Software Silicon Sculptor v6.3.0 (Includes Silicon Sculptor 4) (02/25/21)
Silicon Sculptor Software v6.1.0 (Includes Silicon Sculptor 4) (06/04/17)
Silicon Sculptor Software v5.22.14 (Includes Silicon Sculptor 3) (03/04/17)
Silicon Sculptor Software v5.22.13 (Includes Silicon Sculptor 3) (08/31/16)
Silicon Sculptor Software v5.22.13 (Includes Silicon Sculptor 3) (12/17/16)
Silicon Sculptor Software v5.22.11 (Includes Silicon Sculptor 3) (12/17/15)
Silicon Sculptor Software v5.22.10 (Includes Silicon Sculptor 3) (07/01/15)
Silicon Sculptor Software v.5.22.9 (Includes Silicon Sculptor 3) (04/13/15)
Previous versions of Silicon Sculptor are available at Version Release HistoryParametric Search
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