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Open source cable server for Xilinx - for remote running of tools like Chipscope with unsopported target

Hi,

II'd like to know if there exists an open source implementation of Xilinx cable server, allowing to run it on a platform for which Xilinx does not provide binaries.

Of course it is possible to implement it as e.g. remote parport device (as Xilinx tools support parport connected programmers on Linux platform), but this solution would probably suffer the performance penalty.

Another solution would be to split the linux open source driver (

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Both however are suboptimal solutions. The most efficient would be simply to have functional replacement of cse_server running on remote embedded system connected to the debugged FPGA.

Has anyone tried to do this? Does anybody know if the cse_server protocol is documented?

-- TIA & Regards, WZab

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I've found the old post:

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I've not verified it yet with hardware, but after first look it seems to be a good point to start.

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Xilinx changed there cableserver API, so xilprog doesn't work any longer with recent versions.

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For remote system capable to be USB host and to run Linux a good solution may be to use usbip:

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(via VPN if connection goes through a public network). Then both ChipScope and driver runs on developer's machine, and only USB requests/responses are forwarded via network. I have yet to evaluate the performance of such solution.

-- Regards, WZab

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