Programmer for Spartan-6

I have a Platform Cable USB:

http://www.xilinx.com/products/devkits/HW-USB-G.htm

I want to start playing with spartan-6 devices, but spartan-6 is not
in the Device Family Support list of this programmer. Seems that only
Platform Cable USB II supports spartan-6:

http://www.xilinx.com/products/devkits/HW-USB-II-G.htm

Is it really that way? If so, does anyone have a good explanation for
it?

Thanks

Daniel

You should be ok with this cable provided you have a new enough
version of Impact (ISE).

John Adair
Enterpoint Ltd. - Home of Raggedstone2. The Spartan-6 PCI Express
Development Board.

On 7 July, 21:04, dmendesf <dmend...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a Platform Cable USB:
>
> http://www.xilinx.com/products/devkits/HW-USB-G.htm
>
> I want to start playing with spartan-6 devices, but spartan-6 is not
> in the Device Family Support list of this programmer. Seems that only
> Platform Cable USB II supports spartan-6:
>
> http://www.xilinx.com/products/devkits/HW-USB-II-G.htm
>
> Is it really that way? If so, does anyone have a good explanation for
> it?
>
> Thanks
>
> Daniel