Connecting to Spartan-3 using JtagHs1 : again ..

[dry]

 

 

Hello, 

Few years passed and I need to connect to that board/chip again, using exactly same setup. But I'm kinda stuck again, seems that JtagHs1 is not picked up, or cannot connect to the FPGA chip i'm not sure because there is no usable description of error that I see anywhere. 

Here is what I get:

djtgcfg  enum
ERROR: failed to enumerate devices, erc = 3090

Digilent surely has notes on what that error is from that Digilent binary tool ..?  

 

EDIT:

Ah.. Digilent's install script not fully handling correctly placing config files, if you use /usr/local/xxx path not /usr, so tracing & checking found out that /etc/digilent-adept.conf was missing.  

Now I get reading, and hope to connect to the FPGA as before... testing next.

djtgcfg enum
Found 1 device(s)

Device: JtagHs1
    Product Name:   Digilent JTAG-HS1
    User Name:      JtagHs1
    Serial Number:  210205333638

 

Edited June 2, 2022 by dry

[dry]

Btw, someone happens to need this in year 2022  ( 😃 )and using ISE 14.x (as I don't think Spartan-3 is supported by anything after this, i.e not in Vivado ..) , 

using recent Linux kernel I found that I had to restrict the Digilent HS1 Jtag cable to a USB2 port, while if used on USB3 the libftd2 , as comes with old digilet adept stuff for the board, would cause kernel errors/bugs & oopsies.   haven't tried upgrading to latest libftd2 at the date, as this may cause perhaps other issues for the older apps, but at least now I can program that FPGA from the ISE's IMPACT, and the Digilent's command line utility above.