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<H1>XILINX JTAG tools on Linux without proprietary kernel modules</H1>
- <P><B>News</B> (<I>2008-03-26</I>): Xilinx is about to release their own drivers based on libusb.
- They will be located at:
- <A HREF="http://www.xilinx.com/support/answers/25249.htm">http://www.xilinx.com/support/answers/25249.htm</A>
- </P>
<H2>About</H2>
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When using <a href="http://www.xilinx.com">XILINX</a> JTAG software like Impact, Chipscope and XMD
The library is called <i>libusb-driver</i> as it was developed to support the USB cable, but later
extended to also support parallel cables.
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+ <P><B>News</B> (<I>2008-03-26</I>): 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 <kbd>XIL_IMPACT_USE_LIBUSB</kbd> to <kbd>1</kbd>
+ 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 <i>windrvr</i>, which can be
+ emulated by <i>libusb-driver</i>.</P>
+ <P><B>Using 32-bit ISE 10.1 on a 64-bit platform:</B> When using the 32-bit JTAG tools from ISE Design
+ Suite 10.1 on a 64-bit machine, the tools will not connect to the cable but output the following
+ error: <I>Cable operation is not supported when running the 32-bit version of the application on a
+ 64-bit platform.</I>
+ To fix this, run the tools with <KBD>linux32</KBD> or preload the newest 32-bit version of
+ <i>libusb-driver</i>. This will lead the tools to believe that they are running on a 32-bit
+ platform and allows them to connect to the cable.
+ </P>
<H2>Supported Cables</H2>
The following cables are reported to work with this driver:
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projects / usb-driver / blobdiff