On 03/11/2016 02:42 PM, Neon John wrote:
>
> If it's 6 wire JTAG, Atmel's little $35 unit might work. The big
> question for Linux is, will AVRDUDE program it? It'll drive anything
> from wires hanging off a parallel port on up. It uses a device
> configuration file. If your device isn't in there, you can probably
> add your own. I had to with the AT90PWM processor.
>
> Yeah, I know you're not programming an Atmel part but there's a good
> chance AVRDUDE with the correct configuration file will handle it.
>
I've never actually tried to use avrdude for PLD programming. Can it even
replay SVF files? or fusemaps or whatever?
help cable in urjtag gives:
List of supported cables:
ARCOM Arcom JTAG Cable
ByteBlaster Altera ByteBlaster/ByteBlaster II/ByteBlasterMV Parallel Port Download Cable
DLC5 Xilinx DLC5 JTAG Parallel Cable III
EA253 ETC EA253 JTAG Cable
EI012 ETC EI012 JTAG Cable
FT2232 Generic FTDI FT2232 Cable
ARM-USB-OCD Olimex ARM-USB-OCD[-TINY] (FT2232) Cable
ARM-USB-OCD-H Olimex ARM-USB-TINY-H (FT2232H) Cable
Flyswatter TinCanTools Flyswatter (FT2232) Cable
gnICE Analog Devices Blackfin gnICE (FT2232) Cable (EXPERIMENTAL)
gnICE+ Analog Devices Blackfin gnICE+ (FT2232H) Cable (EXPERIMENTAL)
JTAGkey Amontec JTAGkey (FT2232) Cable
milkymist Milkymist JTAG/serial (FT2232) Cable
OOCDLink-s OOCDLink-s (FT2232) Cable (EXPERIMENTAL)
Signalyzer Xverve DT-USB-ST Signalyzer Tool (FT2232) Cable (EXPERIMENTAL)
Turtelizer2 Turtelizer 2 Rev. B (FT2232) Cable (EXPERIMENTAL)
USB-JTAG-RS232 USB<=>JTAG&RS232 (FT2232) Cable (EXPERIMENTAL)
usbScarab2 KrisTech usbScarabeus2 (FT2232) Cable
USB-to-JTAG-IF USB to JTAG Interface (FT2232) Cable (EXPERIMENTAL)
gpio GPIO JTAG Chain
ICE-100B Analog Devices ICE-X Cable (0x064B)
IGLOO Excelpoint IGLOO JTAG Cable
jlink Segger/IAR J-Link, Atmel SAM-ICE and others.
KeithKoep Keith & Koep JTAG cable
Lattice Lattice Parallel Port JTAG Cable
Minimal Minimal Parallel Port JTAG Cable
MPCBDM Mpcbdm JTAG cable
TRITON Ka-Ro TRITON Starterkit II (PXA255/250) JTAG Cable
UsbBlaster Altera USB-Blaster Cable
vsllink Versaloon Link --
http://www.versaloon.com.
WIGGLER Macraigor Wiggler JTAG Cable
WIGGLER2 Modified (with CPU Reset) WIGGLER JTAG Cable
xpc_ext Xilinx Platform Cable USB external chain
xpc_int Xilinx Platform Cable USB internal chain
PS: I don't know if you can use the ftdi based parts without headaches in linux(never tried)
(but that's likely what you'll be using)