Re: [Xc3sprog-users] Spartan 3A-DSP SPI / BPI

[CeDeROM <tom...@gm...>]

Hello (Czesc) Wojciech! :-)

2010/2/1 Wojciech A. Koszek <wk...@fr...>:
> With Spartan 3E Starter Kit it works with its internal USB JTAG stuff
> on FreeBSD-9 CURRENT.

Mmm, good to know another low level BSD user! :-) Im working on
8.0-RELEASE, did not try to compile xc3sprog as I need to finish some
other work before, but Ive modified a bit PONG demo from Spartan 3E to
test my Spartan 3A-DSP. What kind of memory resides on 3E board - it
it S33 SPI Intel Flash? Did you manage to generate prom file and
upload it into that flash memory?

How about port for xc3sprog? :-)

Sorry for the question, but is xc3sprog mentioned to be standalone
application? Wouldn't be more convenient to add its functinoality into
UrJTAG? ;P

> I have FTDI-based ARM JTAG debugger, which is Amontec cable clone, and since
> Amontec advertises possibility of replaying SVFs via their device, it might be
> possible here as well.

Yes, Ive got both of them - Amontec JTAGkey2P and ARM-USB-OCD. There
are some issues with JTAGkey2P and FreeBSD as it uses FT2232H and our
system still use 0.14 libftdi - Ive noticed maintainer for update :-)
Ive managed to play SVF with both cables under win32.

> There were some problems with parallel cable and I've sent a report
> to this list. Hopefully we'll be able to see it shortly, as it's
> waiting for a moderator.

Parallel cables are simple to build and so it is nice to have them,
however almost no modern computer have them onboard anymore - this is
why Ive switched to USB and most generic FT2232 ones.

Best regards,
Tomek Cedro


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