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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 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 9.1.02i
21 * EDK 9.1.01i
22 * EDK 8.2.02i
23 * EDK 8.1.02i
24
25 In addition to the XILINX USB and parallel cables, devices based on the FTDI
26 2232 serial converter chip are also experimentally supported. This includes
27 devices like the Amontec JTAGkey(-Tiny).
28
29 Build the library by calling `make'. If you are on a 64 bit system but want
30 to build a 32 bit library, run `make lib32' instead.
31
32 To use this library you have to preload the library before starting impact:
33
34 $ LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libusb-driver.so impact
35 or
36 $ export LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/libusb-driver.so (for sh shells)
37 $ setenv LD_PRELOAD /path/to/libusb-driver.so (for csh shells)
38 $ impact
39
40 The source for this library can be found at:
41 http://git.zerfleddert.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi/usb-driver
42
43 The main website is located at:
44 http://www.rmdir.de/~michael/xilinx/
45
46 The Git repository can be cloned with:
47 git clone git://git.zerfleddert.de/usb-driver
48
49
50 Notes for the USB cable
51 =======================
52
53 To use the device as an ordinary user, put the following line in a new
54 file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ and restart udev:
55 ACTION=="add", BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="03fd", MODE="666"
56
57
58 If your cable does not have the ID 03fd:0008 in the output of lsusb,
59 the initial firmware has not been loaded (loading it changes the
60 product-ID from another value to 8). To load the firmware follow
61 these steps:
62
63 1. If you have no /etc/udev/rules.d/xusbdfwu.rules file, copy it from
64 /path/to/ISE/bin/lin/xusbdfwu.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/xusbdfwu.rules
65
66 2. Install the package containing /sbin/fxload from your linux distribution.
67 It is usually called "fxload"
68
69 3. copy the file /path/to/ISE/bin/lin/xusbdfwu.hex to /usr/share/xusbdfwu.hex
70
71 4. restart udev and re-plug the cable
72
73
74 Notes for the parallel cable
75 ============================
76
77 To access the parallel port from userspace, the kernel needs to be built with
78 the features "Parallel port support" (CONFIG_PARPORT), "PC-style hardware"
79 (CONFIG_PARPORT_PC) and "Support for user-space parallel port device drivers"
80 (CONFIG_PPDEV) builtin or as modules. If these features are built as modules,
81 they need to be loaded before using this library.
82 These modules are called:
83 parport
84 parport_pc
85 ppdev
86
87
88 To use the device as an ordinary user, put the user in the group 'lp'
89
90
91 If you have an almost compatible cable which works with other software but not
92 with Impact, try adding -DFORCE_PC3_IDENT to the CFLAGS line in the Makefile.
93 This enables a hack by Stefan Ziegenbalg to force detection of a parallel cable.
94
95
96 Parallel Cable IV is currently only supported in 'compatibility mode', as no
97 attempt to configure the ECP registers is done by this library.
98
99
100 If you get "Programming failed" or "DONE did not go high" when programming
101 through the parallel cable with Impact 9.1, make sure to have the option "Use
102 HIGHZ instead of BYPASS" enabled in Edit -> Preferences -> iMPACT Configuration
103 Preferences.
104 If you are using batch mode, add the following line to your cmd file:
105 setPreference -pref UseHighz:TRUE
106 (This problem also occurs on windows and when using the real windrvr in linux
107 and is solved with the same workaround. Impact 8.2 is working fine with the same
108 boards and designs)
109
110
111 Notes for FTDI 2232 based cables
112 ================================
113
114 To build the driver with FTDI 2232 support, you need to have libftdi and
115 the libftdi development package installed. On debian, you can install both
116 by installing 'libftdi-dev'.
117
118 To set-up the device:
119 1. Find out the vendor and product id of your cable using lsusb:
120 Bus 003 Device 005: ID 0403:cff8 Future Technology Devices ...
121 ~~~~~~~~~
122
123 2. Copy the sample libusb-driverrc to ~/.libusb-driverrc, edit it and replace
124 the vendor and product-id in the example file with the values provided in
125 the lsusb-output. You can also change the 'parallel port' which is mapped to
126 this cable. Impact sees the device at that port as a Parallel Cable III.
127
128 3. To use the device as an ordinary user, put the following line in a new file
129 in /etc/udev/rules.d/ and restart udev:
130 ACTION=="add", BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0403", SYSFS{idProduct}=="cff8", MODE="666"
131 (replace the vendor and product id with your values)
132
133 The support for FTDI 2232 based devices is experimental and they are currently
134 significantly slower than the other supported cables.
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