Usb Jtag Cable Drivers
This videos will describe how use and debug the USB Blaster interface to configure Intel FPGAs.For technical questions, contact the Intel Community: https://. I have a digilent USB-JTAG programming cable rev G which I have checked is pin compatible with connector P19. The programming cable drivers seem to be loaded correctly in device manager, it is called Xilinx Embedded Platform USB Firmware Loader under Programming Cables.
Using Xilinx tools, iMPACT, Chipscope, ... on an UBUNTU 12.04LTS machine.
Being able to download configuration files in Xilinx FPGAs on Xilinx and othere demo boards anduse tools a iMPACT, Chipscope, and etcetera requires he installation of drivers.In the past it often was a burden to get this going, in the latest releases of the software these drivers are delivered with the installation of the software.
I'll provide here the installation procedure on an Ubuntu 12.04LTS equipped machine but thisprocedure can also be followed for other Linux distributions.
After installing the Xilinx ISE software on your machine, open a terminal window using the following key-combination:
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The terminal window opens in your home directory. Change directory to where the Xilinx USB drivers can be found.
The given path points to the 64-bit drivers, for the 32-bit versions replace 'lin64' by 'lin'.
for the installation on my machine the path looks as:
Install the USB cable drivers for Xilinx tools
Install the USB cable drivers for Xilinx tools by typing in the terminal:
Provide your sudo password and the installation will start.Below is an example of the text that will appear in the terminal window while the drivers areinstalled:
It is possible to specify a directory path here for the installation of the drivers, but normally you can just accept the default given path.
The terminal screen will show a whole list of this kind of messages while all .so files areinstalled or installation is skipped because the libraries are already available.
The libraries are installed and the question is asked where to install the binaries of theXilinx USB cable drivers. Provide a path or accept the default given path by just hitting the enter/return key.
Remark:
The paths shown in the terminal text examples are those where the drivers are installed on my machine, it is possible that the install paths/locations are different for your machine and/or Linux distribution.
The binaries are installed and now the question is asked where to install the data files.Provide a pth or accept the given default by hitting enter/return.
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Question asked by the installation flow where to install the runtime configuration file.As for may programs the default given path is /etc but hen wanted this can be anywere else byspecifying a custom path.
Xilinx and Digilent boards use a FTDI USB/RS232 device for communication and downloading of configuration files in the FPGA(s) on teh development / demo boards.The installation program checks if FTDI drivers are already available on the machine and if notinstalls them. Ubuntu is default equiped with Silabs USB/RS232 drivers, so the FTDI drivers willbe installed.It is again possible to specify a location for these drivers. I've let the install tool use the default given location but maybe one wants to install drivers elsewhere, possibly were theSilabs drivers are installed.
Voila, installation done and ready to be tested. Connect a development board via a USB cable to your PC and start a tool like iMPACT or Chipscope.
Example for iMPACT
Start iMPACT via the menu, if you installed the menu system as described in another article on this web page or start iMPACT from the command line.
Source the right Xilinx settings file:
Where <Install Path> is the directory path where the Xilinx tools are installed, <Version Number> is the version of the Xilinx ISE software installed on your machine, NN = 32 or 64 bit machine and FFF = csh or sh shell used.Then type:
The iMPACT GUI will start and when it asks to automatically detect the JTAG chain, respond with yes. WHen the drivers are correctly installed the JTAG chain of components on the used development board will be displayed with icons on the iMPACT canvas.