- <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>.<BR>
- <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><BR>
- 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 cables.
- </P>