Trouble programming a lattice ice stick with diamond 3.10 programmer

[Dmeads]

Hey!

Just got an FPGA board from lattice.

I am going through all the steps in the quick start quide to program a blinking led (Im using the icecube2017 user guide). I want to get familiar with this software to use fpga in my projects.

I got through all the steps except programming the FPGA with diamond. the icestick just has a usb connector so I didnt use JTAG (i dont really know what that is tho)

I have tried different USB ports, but they don't work.

Here is the error message:

INFO - Check configuration setup: Start.

INFO - Check configuration setup: Successful (Ignored JTAG Connection Checking).

INFO - Device1 iCE40HX1K: SPI-M25P10-A: SPI Flash Erase,Program,Verify

Initializing...

IDCode Checking...

ERROR - Function:CHECK_ID
Data Expected: h10  Actual: hFF

ERROR - Operation: unsuccessful.

ERROR - Programming failed.


A little research showed maybe my ftdi drivers need to be updated? What are these drivers? I am running windows 10.



Any tips please?

[Dmeads]

Okay, I solved my own problem.

I want to leave this here for anyone who will need it in the future.

I was using the lattice IceCube2 quickstart guide to load an example sketch of a blinking LED to an Icestick (uses the Ice40HX1K fpga).
This user guide was very out of date (from 2013 I think).

Use this guide to make an LED blink instead:

http://thebcfactor.net/electronics/programmable-logic/lattice-icestick/example-1/

Most of the stuff is the same except for the flashing step.

This should save you some major frustration haha.