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1This library emulates Jungo Windrvr USB and parallel port functions in
2userspace which are required by XILINX impact to access the Platform cable USB
3and Parallel Cable III.
4With this library it is possible to access the cables without loading a
5proprietary kernel module which breaks with every new kernel release. It uses
6the functionality provided by the libusb userspace library for USB access and
7the kernel interface at /dev/parport0 for parallel port access instead and
8should work on every kernel version which is supported by libusb and supports
9ppdev. It was written against impact from ISE Webpack 9.1SP1 and tested with
10the following software:
11
12 * ISE Webpack 9.1SP3
13 * ISE Webpack 9.1SP2
14 * ISE Webpack 9.1SP1
15 * ISE Webpack 8.2SP3
16 * ISE Webpack 8.1SP3
17 * ChipScope 9.1.03i
18 * ChipScope 9.1.02i
19 * ChipScope 8.2.04i
20 * EDK 8.2.02i
21 * EDK 8.1.02i
22
23In addition to the XILINX USB and parallel cables, devices based on the FTDI
242232 serial converter chip are also experimentally supported. This includes
25devices like the Amontec JTAGkey(-Tiny).
26
27Build the library by calling `make'.
28
29To use this library you have to preload the library before starting impact:
30
31$ LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libusb-driver.so impact
32or
33$ export LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libusb-driver.so (for sh shells)
34$ setenv LD_PRELOAD /path/to/libusb-driver.so (for csh shells)
35$ impact
36
37The source for this library can be found at:
38http://git.zerfleddert.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/usb-driver
39
40The main website is located at:
41http://www.rmdir.de/~michael/xilinx/
42
43The Git repository can be cloned with:
44git clone git://git.zerfleddert.de/usb-driver
45
46
47Notes for the USB cable
48=======================
49
50To use the device as an ordinary user, put the following line in a new
51file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ and restart udev:
52ACTION=="add", BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="03fd", MODE="666"
53
54
55If your cable does not have the ID 03fd:0008 in the output of lsusb,
56the initial firmware has not been loaded (loading it changes the
57product-ID from another value to 8). To load the firmware follow
58these steps:
59
601. If you have no /etc/udev/rules.d/xusbdfwu.rules file, copy it from
61 /path/to/ISE/bin/lin/xusbdfwu.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/xusbdfwu.rules
62
632. Install the package containing /sbin/fxload from your linux distribution.
64 It is usually called "fxload"
65
663. copy the file /path/to/ISE/bin/lin/xusbdfwu.hex to /usr/share/xusbdfwu.hex
67
684. restart udev and re-plug the cable
69
70
71Notes for the parallel cable
72============================
73
74To access the parallel port from userspace, the kernel needs to be built with
75the features "Parallel port support" (CONFIG_PARPORT), "PC-style hardware"
76(CONFIG_PARPORT_PC) and "Support for user-space parallel port device drivers"
77(CONFIG_PPDEV) builtin or as modules. If these features are built as modules,
78they need to be loaded before using this library.
79These modules are called:
80parport
81parport_pc
82ppdev
83
84
85To use the device as an ordinary user, put the user in the group 'lp'
86
87
88If you have an almost compatible cable which works with other software but not
89with Impact, try adding -DFORCE_PC3_IDENT to the CFLAGS line in the Makefile.
90This enables a hack by Stefan Ziegenbalg to force detection of a parallel cable.
91
92
93Parallel Cable IV is currently only supported in 'compatibility mode', as no
94attempt to configure the ECP registers is done by this library.
95
96
97If you get "Programming failed" or "DONE did not go high" when programming
98through the parallel cable with Impact 9.1, make sure to have the option "Use
99HIGHZ instead of BYPASS" enabled in Edit -> Preferences -> iMPACT Configuration
100Preferences.
101If you are using batch mode, add the following line to your cmd file:
102setPreference -pref UseHighz:TRUE
103(This problem also occurs on windows and when using the real windrvr in linux
104and is solved with the same workaround. Impact 8.2 is working fine with the same
105boards and designs)
106
107
108Notes for FTDI 2232 based cables
109================================
110
111To build the driver with FTDI 2232 support, you need to have libftdi and
112the libftdi development package installed. On debian, you can install both
113by installing 'libftdi-dev'.
114
115To set-up the device:
1161. Find out the vendor and product id of your cable using lsusb:
117 Bus 003 Device 005: ID 0403:cff8 Future Technology Devices ...
118 ~~~~~~~~~
119
1202. Copy the sample libusb-driverrc to ~/.libusb-driverrc, edit it and replace
121 the vendor and product-id in the example file with the values provided in
122 the lsusb-output. You can also change the 'parallel port' which is mapped to
123 this cable. Impact sees the device at that port as a Parallel Cable III.
124
1253. To use the device as an ordinary user, put the following line in a new file
126 in /etc/udev/rules.d/ and restart udev:
127 ACTION=="add", BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0403", SYSFS{idProduct}=="cff8", MODE="666"
128 (replace the vendor and product id with your values)
129
130The support for FTDI 2232 based devices is experimental and they are currently
131significantly slower than the other supported cables.
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