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1 This library emulates Jungo Windrvr USB and parallel port functions in
2 userspace which are required by XILINX impact to access the Platform cable USB
3 and Parallel Cable III.
4 With this library it is possible to access the cables without loading a
5 proprietary kernel module which breaks with every new kernel release. It uses
6 the functionality provided by the libusb userspace library for USB access and
7 the kernel interface at /dev/parport0 for parallel port access instead and
8 should work on every kernel version which is supported by libusb and supports
9 ppdev. It was written against impact from ISE Webpack 9.1SP1 and tested with
10 the following software:
11
12 * ISE 12.1
13 * ISE Webpack 11.1
14 * ISE Webpack 10.1
15 * ISE Webpack 9.2SP1, SP2, SP3, SP4
16 * ISE Webpack 9.1SP1, SP2, SP3
17 * ISE Webpack 8.2SP3
18 * ISE Webpack 8.1SP3
19 * ChipScope 10.1
20 * ChipScope 9.2.01i, 9.2.02i, 9.2.03i, 9.2.04i
21 * ChipScope 9.1.02i, 9.1.03i
22 * ChipScope 8.2.04i
23 * EDK 10.1
24 * EDK 9.2.01i, 9.2.02i
25 * EDK 9.1.01i, 9.1.02i
26 * EDK 8.2.02i
27 * EDK 8.1.02i
28 * Synplicity Identify
29
30 In addition to the XILINX USB and parallel cables, devices based on the FTDI
31 2232 serial converter chip are also experimentally supported. This includes
32 devices like the Amontec JTAGkey(-Tiny).
33
34 Build the library by calling `make'. If you are on a 64 bit system but want
35 to build a 32 bit library, run `make lib32' instead. Be sure to have the 32
36 bit versions of libusb-devel and libftdi-devel installed!
37
38 To use this library you have to preload the library before starting impact:
39
40 $ LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libusb-driver.so impact
41 or
42 $ export LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libusb-driver.so (for sh shells)
43 $ setenv LD_PRELOAD /path/to/libusb-driver.so (for csh shells)
44 $ impact
45
46 The source for this library can be found at:
47 http://git.zerfleddert.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/usb-driver
48
49 The main website is located at:
50 http://www.rmdir.de/~michael/xilinx/
51
52 The Git repository can be cloned with:
53 git clone git://git.zerfleddert.de/usb-driver
54
55
56 Notes for the USB cable
57 =======================
58
59 To use the device as an ordinary user, put the following line in a new
60 file "libusb-driver.rules" in /etc/udev/rules.d/ and restart udev:
61 ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="03fd", MODE="666"
62
63
64 If your cable does not have the ID 03fd:0008 in the output of lsusb,
65 the initial firmware has not been loaded (loading it changes the
66 product-ID from another value to 8). To load the firmware follow
67 these steps:
68
69 1. If you have no /etc/udev/rules.d/xusbdfwu.rules file, copy it from
70 /path/to/ISE/bin/lin/xusbdfwu.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/xusbdfwu.rules
71
72 2. If you are running a newer version of udev (as in Debian Squeeze and
73 Ubuntu 9.10), you need to adapt the rules-file to the new udev-version:
74 sed -i -e 's/TEMPNODE/tempnode/' -e 's/SYSFS/ATTRS/g' -e 's/BUS/SUBSYSTEMS/' /etc/udev/rules.d/xusbdfwu.rules
75
76 3. Install the package containing /sbin/fxload from your linux distribution.
77 It is usually called "fxload"
78
79 4. copy the files /path/to/ISE/bin/lin/xusb*.hex to /usr/share/
80
81 5. restart udev and re-plug the cable
82
83
84 If you have multiple cables connected, you can specify the cable to use
85 in the XILINX_USB_DEV environment-variable as "bus:device".
86 These identifiers are available in the output of lsusb:
87 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 03fd:0008 Xilinx, Inc.
88 ^^^ ^^^
89 To use this cable, set the XILINX_USB_DEV variable to "001:004".
90
91
92 Notes for the parallel cable
93 ============================
94
95 To access the parallel port from userspace, the kernel needs to be built with
96 the features "Parallel port support" (CONFIG_PARPORT), "PC-style hardware"
97 (CONFIG_PARPORT_PC) and "Support for user-space parallel port device drivers"
98 (CONFIG_PPDEV) builtin or as modules. If these features are built as modules,
99 they need to be loaded before using this library.
100 These modules are called:
101 parport
102 parport_pc
103 ppdev
104
105
106 To use the device as an ordinary user, put the user in the group 'lp'
107
108
109 If you have an almost compatible cable which works with other software but not
110 with Impact, try adding -DFORCE_PC3_IDENT to the CFLAGS line in the Makefile.
111 This enables a hack by Stefan Ziegenbalg to force detection of a parallel cable.
112
113
114 Parallel Cable IV is currently only supported in 'compatibility mode', as no
115 attempt to configure the ECP registers is done by this library.
116
117
118 If you get "Programming failed" or "DONE did not go high" when programming
119 through the parallel cable with Impact 9.1, make sure to have the option "Use
120 HIGHZ instead of BYPASS" enabled in Edit -> Preferences -> iMPACT Configuration
121 Preferences.
122 If you are using batch mode, add the following line to your cmd file:
123 setPreference -pref UseHighz:TRUE
124 (This problem also occurs on windows and when using the real windrvr in linux
125 and is solved with the same workaround. Impact 8.2 is working fine with the same
126 boards and designs)
127
128
129 Notes for FTDI 2232 based cables
130 ================================
131
132 To build the driver with FTDI 2232 support, you need to have libftdi and
133 the libftdi development package installed. On debian, you can install both
134 by installing 'libftdi-dev'.
135
136 To set-up the device:
137 1. Find out the vendor and product id of your cable using lsusb:
138 Bus 003 Device 005: ID 0403:cff8 Future Technology Devices ...
139 ~~~~~~~~~
140
141 2. Copy the sample libusb-driverrc to ~/.libusb-driverrc, edit it and replace
142 the vendor and product-id in the example file with the values provided in
143 the lsusb-output. You can also change the 'parallel port' which is mapped to
144 this cable. Impact sees the device at that port as a Parallel Cable III.
145
146 3. To use the device as an ordinary user, put the following line in a new file
147 in /etc/udev/rules.d/ and restart udev:
148 ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0403", ATTRS{idProduct}=="cff8", MODE="666"
149 (replace the vendor and product id with your values)
150
151 The support for FTDI 2232 based devices is experimental and they are currently
152 significantly slower than the other supported cables.
153
154
155 Locked cables
156 =============
157
158 If you get the message 'The cable is being used by another application.' from
159 impact, try running the following command:
160
161 echo -e 'cleancablelock\nexit' | impact -batch
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