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XILINX JTAG tools on Linux without proprietary kernel modules

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News (2008-03-26): Xilinx has released their own drivers based on libusb with ISE Design Suite 10.1. + To use them, you need to set the environment-variable XIL_IMPACT_USE_LIBUSB to 1 + before running the tools. The driver on this page no longer needs to be preloaded if you only used + it to access USB cables. Parallel port support still seems to rely on windrvr, which can be + emulated by libusb-driver. +

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When using XILINX JTAG software like Impact, Chipscope and XMD @@ -23,48 +29,64 @@ The USB cable is supported at full speed.

+ Experimental support for FTDI 2232 based devices has been added. They are seen by Impact as a Parallel + Cable III. These devices are currently significantly slower than every other supported cable. +

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The library is called libusb-driver as it was developed to support the USB cable, but later extended to also support parallel cables.

Supported Cables

The following cables are reported to work with this driver: These cables should work but have not yet been tested:

Supported Software

The following software is reported to work with this driver:

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- Michael Gernoth, $Id: index.html,v 1.10 2007-04-15 16:16:13 michael Exp $ + Michael Gernoth