Low cost solution to program Spartan 3AN DSP development board AES-SPEEDWAY-S3ADSP-SK Opzioni

I got a response from sales at Digilent. It turns out that this development board is not made by Digilent. The rep said that they were working on updating the Adept software to support the FPGA on it, but it currently does not. So I seem to be running out of luck unless I want to buy the expensive Xilinx cable.

Nice to hear that they're working on it.

In the meantime, don't they also sell a parallel-port JTAG adapter that's (theoretically) compatible with the Xilinx Parallel Cable III? I bought one a few years back and it worked OK for some things. Fairly inexpensive if I recall.

Eric

I think that's a good idea, I believe I've read that iMPACT supports it. I don't care about slow if that's it's drawback. I'm also waiting for an email from the devboard people at Xilinx regarding what all of my cable options are. If they say it will work on that board, I'll go that route. This is frustrating, I wanna play with my new toy.

If you mean the Spartan-3E Starter Kit from Xilinx (

Henri

Yes, this is as far as I can tell the cable that came in the box with the original spartan 3 kits - a digilent-made board ordered from the xilinx website. In those days you just used impact - I think adept came in when xilinx had their propriety usb supported by impact, and digilent had their own proprietary usb not supported by it.

The cblsrv project description mentions the digilent USB cable. When I looked at the source, there's another source file for usb stuff not included in the msvc project (or presumably in the unix style Makefiles). My guess is you'd need to figure out how to include that file in the build.

This could be as simple as making a new entry and putting in the proper valued for the jtag register lengths from the data sheet. Or it could involve additional unpublished parameters (or worse, procedures) derived by experiment - I'm not sure.