Free alternatives to Xilinx iMPACT?

I have a Xilinx Platform Cable USB. With Xilinx iMPACT I can use it to
program CPLDs. Is there a free alternative (preferably some command-line
tool that works on Linux)?

Philipp

On 05/03/2014 10:16, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
> I have a Xilinx Platform Cable USB. With Xilinx iMPACT I can use it to
> program CPLDs. Is there a free alternative (preferably some command-line
> tool that works on Linux)?

I don't have any Xilinx hardware, so I haven't tested, but perhaps 
xc3sprog might work?
http://xc3sprog.sourceforge.net/

HTH--
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway

Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk@spth.de> wrote:
> I have a Xilinx Platform Cable USB. With Xilinx iMPACT I can use it to
> program CPLDs. Is there a free alternative (preferably some command-line
> tool that works on Linux)?

Look for xc3sprog. Please compile from trunk:
svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/xc3sprog/code/trunk xc3sprog-code

Bye
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On 5/3/2014 4:16 AM, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
> I have a Xilinx Platform Cable USB. With Xilinx iMPACT I can use it to
> program CPLDs. Is there a free alternative (preferably some command-line
> tool that works on Linux)?
>
> Philipp
>

Xilinx "Lab Tools" are free, and Impact doesn't even need a license
or key.  So, I'm not sure why you need a third-party product to use
the cable unless you wanted to program non-Xilinx parts.

-- 
Gabor

Hi,

I'm using "Scientific Linux", up-to-date version, xc3sprog with Xilinx
Spartan 6 LX9, LX25, LX45 and attached SPI flash.
It supports the "cheap" Xilinx platform cable using "-c xpc" cable driver
(just "USB", without "II", got mine from ebay for USD 30). I had to fix a
lowercase error in some config file in /etc/somewhere to "fxload" the
firmware, can't' remember the details.
I've used also xverve "Signalyzer H4" (a boxed FTDI chip) and the FTDI chip
on the Papilio Pro board. The FTDI-based cables usually need setting
product / vendor ID in xc3sprog (dmesg, lsusb), sometimes I have to remove
the USB-serial driver (rmmod).

xc3sprog/Linux is pretty fast, and for some cables I can increase the cable
rate, making it even faster.
It can also to put chunks of data to an arbitrary location on the SPI flash
via command line, which seems pretty useful (discaimer, haven't used this
in "production" yet but it worked as expected in a small test)	   
					
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On 03.05.2014 12:10, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On 05/03/2014 10:16, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote:
>> I have a Xilinx Platform Cable USB. With Xilinx iMPACT I can use it to
>> program CPLDs. Is there a free alternative (preferably some command-line
>> tool that works on Linux)?
> 
> I don't have any Xilinx hardware, so I haven't tested, but perhaps
> xc3sprog might work?
> http://xc3sprog.sourceforge.net/
> 
> HTH--
> Torfinn Ingolfsen,
> Norway


Thanks. This one looks good, but it seems the Xilinx Platform Cable USB
is not in the list of supported hardware, so I'll have to get another cable.

Philipp

Hi,

the "Xilinx platform cable USB" works with "-c xpc" cable driver option.

Cheers

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