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From: cs_posting on 6 Sep 2006 14:16 Andreas Ehliar wrote: > On 2006-09-06, Uwe Bonnes <bon(a)hertz.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote: > > "The standalone Xilinx Platform Cable USB is unsupported and untested. Since > > its hardware is presumably very similar, it may be usable as-is or with some > > minor hacking. " > > I have tested it and it doesn't work. One problem is that the CPLD on the > platform cable does not get a supply voltage at all if the xup firmware is > downloaded to the FX2 chip. That sounds as much like an invitation to a solution as a problem... the FX2 chip has decent documentation, right? And you can figure out which pin should be supplying the CPLD... so change the firmware to be downloaded accordingly. And then go after the data signals if it still doesn't work.
From: Uwe Bonnes on 7 Sep 2006 06:47 zcsizmadia(a)gmail.com <zcsizmadia(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > Here is a open-source CableServer replacement,ent for Impact. Currently > Parallel III and Alter ByteBlaster are supported, but any 3rd party can > be implemented easily and can be used from Impact. > I've tested only Impact 8.2, if anybody has any problem with 7.1, > please let me know! > Impact and Xilinx CableServer communication are very pooly written. > There is no error recovery at all. If server stops, Impact GUI will > crash. To avoid this you must disconnect server from GUI using > Output/Cavble disconnect menu. > http://sourceforge.net/projects/xilprg > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id\ =175344&package_id=203209 Do you plan to merger xilprg and cblsrv? -- Uwe Bonnes bon(a)elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------
From: zcsizmadia@gmail.com on 7 Sep 2006 10:03 I don't know yet. The CableServer protocol is really close to svf format, so to implement the different device program/erase/read functions should be easy. If people will add patches to cblsrv and will support a lots of different 3rd party cables, then probably yes. I think there could be a cblhost project with a built in cblsrv, so on alocal machine you don't have to start 2 applications, and still can connect to a remote cblsrv. But right now probably not. Unfortunately I have only 2 kinds of programmer cable (Par III, and Digilent USB JTAG), so I wait for other people to make patches for their loved cables :) Zoltan Uwe Bonnes wrote: > zcsizmadia(a)gmail.com <zcsizmadia(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > Here is a open-source CableServer replacement,ent for Impact. Currently > > Parallel III and Alter ByteBlaster are supported, but any 3rd party can > > be implemented easily and can be used from Impact. > > > I've tested only Impact 8.2, if anybody has any problem with 7.1, > > please let me know! > > > Impact and Xilinx CableServer communication are very pooly written. > > There is no error recovery at all. If server stops, Impact GUI will > > crash. To avoid this you must disconnect server from GUI using > > Output/Cavble disconnect menu. > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/xilprg > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id\ > =175344&package_id=203209 > > Do you plan to merger xilprg and cblsrv? > > -- > Uwe Bonnes bon(a)elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de > > Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt > --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------
From: henk on 8 Sep 2006 07:54
Let's make an open-hardware embedded CableServer/cable, say an Atmel SAM7X with PHY and a Coolrunner, or a Spartan3 with Microblaze/MAC/PHY? Henk van Kampen www.mediatronix.com zcsizmadia(a)gmail.com wrote: > Hi All, > > Here is a open-source CableServer replacement,ent for Impact. Currently > Parallel III and Alter ByteBlaster are supported, but any 3rd party can > be implemented easily and can be used from Impact. > > I've tested only Impact 8.2, if anybody has any problem with 7.1, > please let me know! > > Impact and Xilinx CableServer communication are very pooly written. > There is no error recovery at all. If server stops, Impact GUI will > crash. To avoid this you must disconnect server from GUI using > Output/Cavble disconnect menu. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/xilprg > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=175344&package_id=203209 > > Regards, > > Zoltan |