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The library is called <i>libusb-driver</i> as it was developed to support the USB cable, but later
extended to also support parallel cables.
</P>
<P><B>News</B> (<I>2008-03-26</I>): Xilinx has released their own drivers based on libusb with ISE Design Suite 10.1.
To use them, you need to set the environment-variable <kbd>XIL_IMPACT_USE_LIBUSB</kbd> to <kbd>1</kbd>
before running the tools. The driver on this page no longer needs to be preloaded if you only used
it to access USB cables. Parallel port support still seems to rely on <i>windrvr</i>, which can be
emulated by <i>libusb-driver</i>.</P>
<P><B>Using 32-bit ISE 10.1 on a 64-bit platform:</B> When using the 32-bit JTAG tools from ISE Design
Suite 10.1 on a 64-bit machine, the tools will not connect to the cable but output the following
error: <I>Cable operation is not supported when running the 32-bit version of the application on a
64-bit platform.</I>
To fix this, run the tools with <KBD>linux32</KBD> or preload the newest 32-bit version of
<i>libusb-driver</i>. This will lead the tools to believe that they are running on a 32-bit
platform and allows them to connect to the cable.
<P><B>News</B>
<UL>
<LI><I>2008-03-26</I>: Xilinx has released their own drivers based on libusb with ISE Design Suite 10.1.
To use them, you need to set the environment-variable <kbd>XIL_IMPACT_USE_LIBUSB</kbd> to <kbd>1</kbd>
before running the tools. The driver on this page no longer needs to be preloaded if you only used
it to access USB cables. Parallel port support still seems to rely on <i>windrvr</i>, which can be
emulated by <i>libusb-driver</i>.</P>
<P><B>Using 32-bit ISE 10.1 on a 64-bit platform:</B> When using the 32-bit JTAG tools from ISE Design
Suite 10.1 on a 64-bit machine, the tools will not connect to the cable but output the following
error: <I>Cable operation is not supported when running the 32-bit version of the application on a
64-bit platform.</I>
To fix this, run the tools with <KBD>linux32</KBD> or preload the newest 32-bit version of
<i>libusb-driver</i>. This will lead the tools to believe that they are running on a 32-bit
platform and allows them to connect to the cable.</LI>
<LI><I>2009-05-31</I>: ISE Design Suite 11.1 now uses their libusb based drivers as default, without
the need to set <kbd>XIL_IMPACT_USE_LIBUSB</kbd>. If you want to use this driver with ISE 11.1 for USB
cables and disable the builtin support for libusb, you now have to set <kbd>XIL_IMPACT_USE_LIBUSB</kbd>
to <kbd>0</kbd> (<kbd>export XIL_IMPACT_USE_LIBUSB=0</kbd> or <kbd>setenv XIL_IMPACT_USE_LIBUSB 0</kbd>).
For parallel cables Xilinx still relies on <i>windrvr</i>. This library works fine with parallel cables and
ISE 11.1 with no need for <i>windrvr</i>.</LI>
</UL>
</P>
<H2>Supported Cables</H2>
The following cables are reported to work with this driver:
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<H2>Supported Software</H2>
The following software is reported to work with this driver:
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/ise/logic_design_prod/webpack.htm">ISE Webpack 11.1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/ise/logic_design_prod/webpack.htm">ISE Webpack 10.1</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/ise/logic_design_prod/webpack.htm">ISE Webpack 9.2 SP1, SP2, SP3 and SP4</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.xilinx.com/ise/logic_design_prod/webpack.htm">ISE Webpack 9.1 SP1, SP2 and SP3</a></li>