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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 9.2SP1, SP2
13 * ISE Webpack 9.1SP1, SP2, SP3
14 * ISE Webpack 8.2SP3
15 * ISE Webpack 8.1SP3
16 * ChipScope 9.2.01i, 9.2.02i
17 * ChipScope 9.1.02i, 9.1.03i
18 * ChipScope 8.2.04i
19 * EDK 9.1.01i, 9.1.02i
20 * EDK 8.2.02i
21 * EDK 8.1.02i
22 * Synplicity Identify
23
24In addition to the XILINX USB and parallel cables, devices based on the FTDI
252232 serial converter chip are also experimentally supported. This includes
26devices like the Amontec JTAGkey(-Tiny).
27
28Build the library by calling `make'. If you are on a 64 bit system but want
29to build a 32 bit library, run `make lib32' instead.
30
31To use this library you have to preload the library before starting impact:
32
33$ LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libusb-driver.so impact
34or
35$ export LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libusb-driver.so (for sh shells)
36$ setenv LD_PRELOAD /path/to/libusb-driver.so (for csh shells)
37$ impact
38
39The source for this library can be found at:
40http://git.zerfleddert.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/usb-driver
41
42The main website is located at:
43http://www.rmdir.de/~michael/xilinx/
44
45The Git repository can be cloned with:
46git clone git://git.zerfleddert.de/usb-driver
47
48
49Notes for the USB cable
50=======================
51
52To use the device as an ordinary user, put the following line in a new
53file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ and restart udev:
54ACTION=="add", BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="03fd", MODE="666"
55
56
57If your cable does not have the ID 03fd:0008 in the output of lsusb,
58the initial firmware has not been loaded (loading it changes the
59product-ID from another value to 8). To load the firmware follow
60these steps:
61
621. If you have no /etc/udev/rules.d/xusbdfwu.rules file, copy it from
63 /path/to/ISE/bin/lin/xusbdfwu.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/xusbdfwu.rules
64
652. Install the package containing /sbin/fxload from your linux distribution.
66 It is usually called "fxload"
67
683. copy the files /path/to/ISE/bin/lin/xusb*.hex to /usr/share/
69
704. restart udev and re-plug the cable
71
72
73If you have multiple cables connected, you can specify the cable to use
74in the XILINX_USB_DEV environment-variable as "bus:device".
75These identifiers are available in the output of lsusb:
76Bus 001 Device 004: ID 03fd:0008 Xilinx, Inc.
77 ^^^ ^^^
78To use this cable, set the XILINX_USB_DEV variable to "001:004".
79
80
81Notes for the parallel cable
82============================
83
84To access the parallel port from userspace, the kernel needs to be built with
85the features "Parallel port support" (CONFIG_PARPORT), "PC-style hardware"
86(CONFIG_PARPORT_PC) and "Support for user-space parallel port device drivers"
87(CONFIG_PPDEV) builtin or as modules. If these features are built as modules,
88they need to be loaded before using this library.
89These modules are called:
90parport
91parport_pc
92ppdev
93
94
95To use the device as an ordinary user, put the user in the group 'lp'
96
97
98If you have an almost compatible cable which works with other software but not
99with Impact, try adding -DFORCE_PC3_IDENT to the CFLAGS line in the Makefile.
100This enables a hack by Stefan Ziegenbalg to force detection of a parallel cable.
101
102
103Parallel Cable IV is currently only supported in 'compatibility mode', as no
104attempt to configure the ECP registers is done by this library.
105
106
107If you get "Programming failed" or "DONE did not go high" when programming
108through the parallel cable with Impact 9.1, make sure to have the option "Use
109HIGHZ instead of BYPASS" enabled in Edit -> Preferences -> iMPACT Configuration
110Preferences.
111If you are using batch mode, add the following line to your cmd file:
112setPreference -pref UseHighz:TRUE
113(This problem also occurs on windows and when using the real windrvr in linux
114and is solved with the same workaround. Impact 8.2 is working fine with the same
115boards and designs)
116
117
118Notes for FTDI 2232 based cables
119================================
120
121To build the driver with FTDI 2232 support, you need to have libftdi and
122the libftdi development package installed. On debian, you can install both
123by installing 'libftdi-dev'.
124
125To set-up the device:
1261. Find out the vendor and product id of your cable using lsusb:
127 Bus 003 Device 005: ID 0403:cff8 Future Technology Devices ...
128 ~~~~~~~~~
129
1302. Copy the sample libusb-driverrc to ~/.libusb-driverrc, edit it and replace
131 the vendor and product-id in the example file with the values provided in
132 the lsusb-output. You can also change the 'parallel port' which is mapped to
133 this cable. Impact sees the device at that port as a Parallel Cable III.
134
1353. To use the device as an ordinary user, put the following line in a new file
136 in /etc/udev/rules.d/ and restart udev:
137 ACTION=="add", BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0403", SYSFS{idProduct}=="cff8", MODE="666"
138 (replace the vendor and product id with your values)
139
140The support for FTDI 2232 based devices is experimental and they are currently
141significantly slower than the other supported cables.
142
143
144Locked cables
145=============
146
147If you get the message 'The cable is being used by another application.' from
148impact, try running the following command:
149
150echo -e 'cleancablelock\nexit' | impact -batch
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