Is there something very basic that I am missing, like installing a software or setting some obscure jumpers to the correct position? Should the board work out-of-the-box with a fresh Xilinx ISE 14.1 install? Thanks, Oriol. I don't want to switch to Windows to run the tools. If he could explain the experience, it would be really helpful for the community. Somebody posted that he could make it work under Ubuntu 12.04 with an ISE 14.1. Please connect a cable.If a cable is connected, please disconnect and reconnect to the usb port, follow the instructions in the 'Found New Hardware Wizard', then retry the Cable Setup operation. 'Cable Auto Connect' shows this message when trying to open a USB device: Checking cable driver. Under Windows, Impact does not detect the cable. Windows detects one of them as a Digilent's device. I connected the USB devices to the virtual machine. Then I decided to run the Xilinx tools on a virtual Windows 7 machine, using a VMware Workstation. Apparently none of them recognize this board, maybe it is too new. Using opensource drivers, like libusb or the old driver by Michael Gernoth. They only support ISE up to version 13, not 14.1, and Impact strongly rejects them. I gave up, the script became outdated since Linux 2.6.19 or so. Bus 001 Device 017: ID 0403:6014 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232H Single HS USB-UART/FIFO IC I tried all the possible workarounds: - Fixing the Windrvr6 install scripts. 04 detects both USB devices correctly, the output of lsusb is: Bus 001 Device 016: ID 04b4:0008 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. As somebody commented in this forum, Windrvr6 install silently fails because it does not support the Linux kernel 3.2.

When SDK was working fine, I could not make it detect the JTAG cable. First I had to reinstall to the Embedded version, because if not the ARM toolchain is not installed (and the provided by Xilinx has a different name that SDK does not recognize, and configuring Eclipse can be a nightmare). Hi, I spent some days trying to make Impact detect the JTAG cable.

The iMPACT GUI will start and when it asks to automatically detect the JTAG. Xilinx and Digilent boards use a FTDI USB. Some documents provided by Xilinx say that the drivers should be on the USB Drive provided with the FPGA in a folder called 'Drivers_and_tools', but there isn't one on mine. I've been trying this for days to no avail. The board I am using is the Virtex 6 ML605 xc6vlx240t ff1156. I was wondering if anyone knows where to get USB JTAG cable drivers for Windows Vista and Windows 7 machines.

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