Xilinx USB Blaster FX2 firmware and CPLD replacement under GPL released

http://inisyn.org/src/xup/

its already done! I was kind of hoping someone does it,
and voila, done...

and as a good smile bonus, I really like that webpage,
the author can really name thing with proper names.

to understand that just place the cursor over "proprietary nightmare" -
and you see the hyperlink - www.jungo.com !! :)

nice way to say it: "The windriver stuff really is one major thing that
f*** ups Xilinx Cable IV and USB Cable support".

Antti
http://antti-brain.com

Antti wrote:

> http://inisyn.org/src/xup/
> 
> its already done! I was kind of hoping someone does it,
> and voila, done...

Have you (or anyone else) tried it with the Platform USB cable? I'd imagine
it would be almost identical to the stuff that's on the S3E starter board
but you never know how bloody minded some hardware companies can be ;)

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Daniel O'Connor schrieb:

> Antti wrote:
>
> > http://inisyn.org/src/xup/
> >
> > its already done! I was kind of hoping someone does it,
> > and voila, done...
>
> Have you (or anyone else) tried it with the Platform USB cable? I'd imagine
> it would be almost identical to the stuff that's on the S3E starter board
> but you never know how bloody minded some hardware companies can be ;)
>
> --
> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
> "The nice thing about standards is that there
> are so many of them to choose from."
>   -- Andrew Tanenbaum
> GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

as long as the platform usb and s3e starte use the same FX2 firmware
and same CPLD file they should be fairly compatible.

the difference could be in additional control outputs of the CPLD as
the platform cable has tri-state busdrivers not present in the
starterkit. so control outputs for them may have to be tied to some
level in the CPLD.

well thats a guess I have not checked or tried it yet.

Antti

Antti wrote:
> as long as the platform usb and s3e starte use the same FX2 firmware
> and same CPLD file they should be fairly compatible.

I imagine the CPLD is identical as the WebPack software just sees it as a
Platform USB cable.

> the difference could be in additional control outputs of the CPLD as
> the platform cable has tri-state busdrivers not present in the
> starterkit. so control outputs for them may have to be tied to some
> level in the CPLD.
> 
> well thats a guess I have not checked or tried it yet.

OK, I am looking at getting a new JTAG dongle since the one work got for
free(!) with Altium seems a bit dodgy. (And it's slow and it's parallel)

Thanks.

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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are so many of them to choose from."
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