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<H1>XILINX JTAG tools on Linux without proprietary kernel modules</H1>
<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>.<BR>
<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><BR>
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 cables.
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<H2>About</H2>
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When using <a href="http://www.xilinx.com">XILINX</a> JTAG software like Impact, Chipscope and XMD
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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.
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<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.
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<H2>Supported Cables</H2>
The following cables are reported to work with this driver:
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