ezload

What is ezload?

Typically these devices are attached to the USB bus, have their firmware downloaded, and then are soft-booted to reattached them to the bus with the loaded firmware in place.

ezload was originally written to load the firmware onto the ActiveWire test boards, but should work for other EZ-USB devices as well.

News

• 10/20/08: ezload now maintained by Steve Franks; moving storage to sourceforge.net, sorry for the delay!
• 12/23/04: ezload 0.4.0 released, see CHANGES for details.

Documentation

• CHANGES
• ezdownload: Load firmware onto the device
• ezupload: Retrieve firmware from the device
• aw: Toggle bits on the ActiveWire board.

Download

• FreeBSD: See the misc/ezload port.
• Linux: Download source

Links

• ActiveWire: Makes EZ-USB test boards.
• KeySpan: Their USB to serial adapters use EZ-USB chips.
• Cypress AN21xx EZ-USB Chipset

Thanks

• These utilities were written by Dirk-Willem van Gulik, WebWeaving Consultancy for FreeBSD
• Linux port by Brad Hards
• Nick Hibma maintained the FreeBSD port for quite some time

Maintainer

Steve Franks