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.
</P>
- <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><B>News</B>
+ <UL>
+ <LI><P><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></LI>
+
+ <LI><P><I>2009-05-31</I>: ISE Design Suite 11.1 now uses Xilinx's libusb-based drivers as default, without
+ the need to set <kbd>XIL_IMPACT_USE_LIBUSB</kbd>. If you want to use this driver with ISE 11.1 for USB
+ cables and disable the builtin support for libusb, you now have to set <kbd>XIL_IMPACT_USE_LIBUSB</kbd>
+ to <kbd>0</kbd> (<kbd>export XIL_IMPACT_USE_LIBUSB=0</kbd> or <kbd>setenv XIL_IMPACT_USE_LIBUSB 0</kbd>).
+ For parallel cables Xilinx still relies on <i>windrvr</i>. This library works fine with parallel cables and
+ ISE 11.1 with no need for <i>windrvr</i>.</P></LI>
+
+ <LI><P><I>2010-03-15</I>: If you are using newer udev-versions (like the version included in Debian Squeeze
+ and Ubuntu 9.10), then the file <i>/etc/udev/rules.d/xusbdfwu.rules</i> is incompatible with this udev
+ version. The effect of this is that the cable-firmware gets never loaded and the cable led never lights up.</P>
+ <P>To fix this, run the following command as root:<BR>
+ <kbd>sed -i -e 's/TEMPNODE/tempnode/' -e 's/SYSFS/ATTRS/g' -e 's/BUS/SUBSYSTEMS/' /etc/udev/rules.d/xusbdfwu.rules</kbd><BR>
+ You may have to reboot for this change to take effect.</P></LI>
+
+ <LI><P><I>2010-05-22</I>: Support for ISE 12 is now available in the driver.</P></LI>
+ </UL>
</P>
<H2>Supported Cables</H2>
The following cables are reported to work with this driver:
<ul>
+ <li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/data_sheets/ds593.pdf">XILINX Platform Cable USB II</a></li>
<li><a href="http://direct.xilinx.com/bvdocs/publications/ds300.pdf">XILINX Platform Cable USB DLC9, DLC9LP and DLC9G</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/s3estarter">Integrated Platform Cable USB on Spartan 3E starter kit</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/s3astarter">Integrated Platform Cable USB on Spartan 3A starter kit</a></li>
</ul>
These cables should work but have not yet been tested:
<ul>
- <li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/products/devkits/HW-USB-II-G.htm">XILINX Platform Cable USB II</a></li>
<li>Integrated Platform Cable USB on other development boards</li>
<li>other Parallel Cable III clones</li>
<li>other FTDI2232 based devices which use the chips standard JTAG pinout (experimental)</li>
<H2>Supported Software</H2>
The following software is reported to work with this driver:
<ul>
+ <li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/tools/designtools.htm">ISE 12</a> (all editions)</li>
+ <li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/tools/designtools.htm">ISE 11</a> (all editions)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/ise/logic_design_prod/webpack.htm">ISE Webpack 10.1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/ise/logic_design_prod/webpack.htm">ISE Webpack 9.2 SP1, SP2, SP3 and SP4</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/ise/logic_design_prod/webpack.htm">ISE Webpack 9.1 SP1, SP2 and SP3</a></li>
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