Free alternatives to Xilinx iMPACT?

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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
 
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)?
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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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Uwe Bonnes bon@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de

Institut fuer Kernphysik Schlossgartenstrasse 9 64289 Darmstadt
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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)?
Click to expand...

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
 
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
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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.

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Gabor
 
Hi,

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

xc3sprog/Linux is pretty fast, and for some cables I can increase the cabl
rate, making it even faster.
It can also to put chunks of data to an arbitrary location on the SPI flas
via command line, which seems pretty useful (discaimer, haven't used thi
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
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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

Markus

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