PowerPC and JTAG

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BrakePiston

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Hi everybody, just a quick question.

Can the PowerPC in a Virtex II Pro, be routed to control the JTAG
hardware? By that I mean provide instruction and data to the TAP

Thanks!!
 
Yes. There is an internal JTag tap that can be "tapped into" If you want to
use the PPC Jtag you have to use the internal tap symbol. Also If you load
via the select map you can have pins from the Xilinx route outside to the
jtag pins.

I sure there are other ways also.

Steve



"BrakePiston" <brakepiston@REMOVEyahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:h6qs001vj8noonjnh9mbdocdsc5iu1ve16@4ax.com...
Hi everybody, just a quick question.

Can the PowerPC in a Virtex II Pro, be routed to control the JTAG
hardware? By that I mean provide instruction and data to the TAP

Thanks!!
 
"Steve Casselman" <sc_nospam@vcc.com> wrote in message news:<MEjRb.16624$un.13640@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com>...
Yes. There is an internal JTag tap that can be "tapped into" If you want to
use the PPC Jtag you have to use the internal tap symbol.
Is this really true? I thought the only way you could drive the JTAG
pins was with external connections from other IO pins. The only
reference I could find to JTAG tap is the way the PPC taps into the
JTAG instruction register so the length doesn't vary depending on
whether the PPC is used or not.

Could you cite a reference?

Alan Nishioka
alann@accom.com
 
Alan,

Page 260 of the PowerPC Processor Reference Guide covers JTAG for the
405PPC.

www.support.xilinx.com and go to the /documentation/users guides/Device
Families/Virtex-II Pro/

Austin

Alan Nishioka wrote:
"Steve Casselman" <sc_nospam@vcc.com> wrote in message news:<MEjRb.16624$un.13640@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com>...

Yes. There is an internal JTag tap that can be "tapped into" If you want to
use the PPC Jtag you have to use the internal tap symbol.


Is this really true? I thought the only way you could drive the JTAG
pins was with external connections from other IO pins. The only
reference I could find to JTAG tap is the way the PPC taps into the
JTAG instruction register so the length doesn't vary depending on
whether the PPC is used or not.

Could you cite a reference?

Alan Nishioka
alann@accom.com
 
Austin Lesea <austin@xilinx.com> wrote in message news:<bvc7np$eer1@cliff.xsj.xilinx.com>...
Page 260 of the PowerPC Processor Reference Guide covers JTAG for the
405PPC.
Right, but I think the OP was asking if you could *drive* JTAG from
the PPC and I didn't think this was possible (w/o external
connections).

I want to do this so I can update flash using JTAG and the internal
PPC.

Alan Nishioka
alann@accom.com
 
Alan,

Since the PPC is all inside the FPGA, and you have to instatiate the
JATG to get access to the PPC, I imagine you can wire it anywhere you
want in the fabric....

Austin

Alan Nishioka wrote:
Austin Lesea <austin@xilinx.com> wrote in message news:<bvc7np$eer1@cliff.xsj.xilinx.com>...

Page 260 of the PowerPC Processor Reference Guide covers JTAG for the
405PPC.


Right, but I think the OP was asking if you could *drive* JTAG from
the PPC and I didn't think this was possible (w/o external
connections).

I want to do this so I can update flash using JTAG and the internal
PPC.

Alan Nishioka
alann@accom.com
 

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