FPGA JTAG commands

Jun 19, 2008 1 Replies

Hi,



I am trying to access a QuickLogic FPGA via JTAG. I am using a FTDI DLP2232M-G (and associated FTCJTAG api) to connect to the device.



So far I have been able to read and write data to the device sucessfully, or at least i think so!



My problem is, that presented with a read / write API functions I have no idea as to what I *should* be writing to or reading from the FPGA and to which registers (instruction / test). My goal (at least for now) is to sample the state of every pin on the device.



My question is this: does anyone know the commands needed to sample the state of every pin on the FPGA and if so how do I interpret what I read back?



Please bear in mind that I am a software engineer and know virtually nothing about FPGA's and very little about JTAG (dispite reading the IEEE standard and understanding very little).



Thanks in advance for any help.



_TK_


This information is usually provided in BSDL (Boundary Scan Description Language) files. Try to ask Quicklogic about this. (A quick search at quicklogic.com didn't turn up anything when I tried it.)

/Andreas

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