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