WIN 10 driver issues with digilent cable and Vivado

[FPGA_matt]

Hi there!

My Vivado Hardware Manager is unable to detect the hardware that is connected to my digilent cable. I guess there is a driver issue!?
All I can see is that it is connected to localhost(0).

I did get some errors at first but now I am not able to recreate them. I believe they had to do with the hw_server!?

I have already looked at this post but no change!

Also, I've tried the following solutions but that didn't help either.

https://www.xilinx.com/support/answers/59128.html
https://www.xilinx.com/support/answers/54382.html
https://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Configuration/XIlinx-platform-cable-windows-10-driver-installation-problem/td-p/831357

So now I have no idea what to do. Any ideas as to what migth be the problem?

OS is WIN 10 and I'm using Vivado 2018.2 but had the same problem with 2017.4.

Here is the current driver setup: (sorry it's in german)

 

Is this the correct one? I have also tried these but no luck either.

 

I guess it's a driver issue or am I on the wrong track!? I have no idea what else to try since I can't find any more info/solutions online.

Thanks for helping me out!

 

[jpeyron]

Hi @FPGA_matt,

Here is a forum thread that addresses an issue with windows 10 and the XUP USB-JTAG Programming Cable that should be helpful.

thank you,
Jon

[jpeyron]

Hi @FPGA_matt,

Are you using the Xilinx Platform Cable USB II? If so this might be a useful guide.

thank you,

Jon

[FPGA_matt]

Hi @jpeyron,

Thanks for your quick reply.

No, I'm actually using the 'XUP USB-JTAG Programming Cable'.
The target I'm trying to program is a Zynq 7000.

Thanks

[FPGA_matt]

@jpeyron You're the man! It works!

Found the solution here and it works with Vivado 2018.2 and Win 10 Home.

[Carsten Schmid]

Hi,

i came across the same problem with Xilinx tools 2020.1 on Windows 10 where XUP USB-JTAG Programming cable was not recognized with a Xilinx ZCU102 board.

After some try and error i found a solution i want to post here because the hints that i found in this thread helped to get there.

2020.1 brings drivers for both Windows 7 and Windows 10. But the Windows 10 drivers do not work; instead use the Windows 7 drivers:

- Plug in the cable with the installed Win10 drivers, go to device manager and select uninstall for the cable, delete drivers

- Unplug the cable

- in an administrator shell, go to folder where cable drivers are, <your inst path>\2020.1\data\xicom\cable_drivers\nt64\dlc10_win7

- use these 2 commands to install the Windows 7 drivers:

wdreg -inf xusbdrvr.inf install
wdreg -inf windrvr6.inf install

- both  times accept the drivers to be installed when asked - Win10 wants to have a confirmation when installing Win7 drivers

Now you can plug in your cable, it should work.