Xilinx USB JTAG cable installation

Assuming you have installed Xilinx ISE, this article will guide you on installing Cable Drivers for Xilinx USB JTAB Programmers. If you have problems, please check that you have not done any mistake on the primary installation.

Digilent Xilinx USB JTAG cable

Installation environment

• Fedora 23 (64 bits)
• Linux Kernel 4.2.5
• Xilinx ISE Design Suite 14.7 for Linux

Digilent Adept Runtime x86/x64

Digilent Adept Runtime package is available at Digilent website.

Chose the package according to your Linux OS. If it’s a 32-bit OS, download Adept Runtime x86 Linux. If it’s 64-bit kernel, download Adept Runtime x64 Linux. The downloaded software package is wrapped in format .tar.gz.

Digilent Adept Utilities x86/x64

Digilent Adept Runtime package is available at Digilent website.

Chose the package according to your linux OS. If it’s a 32-bit OS, download Adept Utilities x86 Linux. If it’s 64-bit kernel, download Adept Utilities x64 Linux. The downloaded software package is wrapped in format .tar.gz.

Digilent Plugins x86/x64

Download Digilent Plugin for Xilinx Design Suite if you want to download your bitstream from XPS, ISE or iMPACT directly and debug with SDK or Chipscope. Digilent Plugin is alse available at Digilent website.

Chose the package according to your Linux OS. If it’s a 32-bit OS, download Digilent Plug-in x86 Linux. If it’s 64-bit kernel, download Digilent Plug-in x64 Linux. The downloaded software package is wrapped in format .tar.gz.

Installation

First of all, decompress all packages.

$ tar xzf digilent.adept.runtime_<version>.tar.gz

$ tar xzf digilent.adept.utilities_<version>.tar.gz

$ tar xzf libCseDigilent_<version>.tar.gz

Install Digilent Adept Runtime

If you are installing on kernel version greater than 3.0, you first need to add the following lines after line 209

209 cprocUdev = $(ps -e | grep -i -c udevd)  
210  
211 if [ "${szVmjr}" = "3" ]  
212 then  
213        if (( $cprocUdev ))  
214        then  
215               let fUseUdev = 1  
216        fi  
217 fi

NOTE

You can retrieve your kernel version with $ uname -r

After the verification above, run the installation script

$ sudo ./install.sh

Copy the rule file 52-digilent-usb.rules to the udev directory and restart udev

$ sudo cp 52-digilent-usb.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/
$ sudo udevadm control --reload

Install Digilent Adept Utilities

Enter directory digilent.adept.utilities_<version>-<platform>, and run command the install script. This time we will keep all default locations unchanged

$ sudo ./install.sh

Install Digilent Plugin for Xilinx Design Suites

Enter directory libCseDigilent_2.0.5-<platform>. Move to the directory of the Xilinx DS version installed on your computer. There is a PDF under the folder named: Digilent_Plug-in_Xilinx_<version>.pdf. The document tells exactly how to install the Digilent Plugin and how to use it. To install plugin is quite easy, all you need to do is copy the libCseDigilent.so and libCseDigilent.xml Digilent inside plugins folder. Remember to choose the right <lin_version> (lib or lib64 depending of your architecture)

$ sudo cp * <Xilinx_DS_Path>/ISE/lib/<lin_version>/plugins/Digilent/libCseDigilent/

If there is no dir Digilent under <Xilinx_DS_Path>/ISE/lib/<lin_version>/plugins, just make a new dir

$ sudo mkdir <Xilinx_DS_Path>/ISE/lib/<lin_version>/plugins/Digilent

Testing

Connect your Digilent board to your PC, and check whether Adept utilities can recognize your board. All you need is to run the command djtgcfg and see whether your boards pop up

$ djtgcfg enum

See if any FPGA can be found on your JTAG chain.

For now on I believe that you can walk by yourself, and begin to program your device.

Reference

This guide was adapted from Gentoo Linux Wiki article “Xilinx USB JTAG Programmers”.

• Linux
• Fpga