2.3. System requirements

2.3.1. Supported host operating systems

JTAG Tools should run on all Unix like operating systems including MS Windows with Cygwin installed. A precompiled version that runs on MS Windows without Cygwin is available as a Windows installer executable.

2.3.2. Required software for running UrJTAG

Required only for MS Windows, unless you use the precompiled version:

• current Cygwin net installation from http://cygwin.com

• ioperm package (a part of the standard Cygwin net installation)

It may be necessary to run the command "ioperm -i" to install the IOPERM.SYS driver in the system.

If UrJTAG was compiled to use the readline library, it has to be present on the system as well. It’s probably a standard part of your distribution.

More software is needed if you want to compile UrJTAG (which you probably want because currently no pre-compiled binaries are available…). See "Installation" below.

2.3.3. Supported JTAG adapters/cables

See help cable command for up-to-date info.

Parallel-port cables:

• Arcom JTAG Cable

• Altera ByteBlaster/ByteBlaster II/ByteBlasterMV Parallel Port Download Cable

• Xilinx DLC5 JTAG Parallel Cable III

• ETC EA253 JTAG Cable

• ETC EI012 JTAG Cable

• Ka-Ro TRITON (PXA255/250) JTAG Cable

• Keith & Koep JTAG Cable

• Lattice Parallel Port JTAG Cable

• Mpcbdm JTAG Cable

• Macraigor Wiggler JTAG Cable

FT2232-based USB cables:

• Amontec JTAGkey

• Amontec JTAGkey-Tiny (supported as cable "JTAGkey")

• KrisTech UsbScarab2 ARM JTAG http://www.kristech.eu/

• Olimex ARM-USB-JTAG

• Olimex ARM-USB-TINY

• OOCDLink-s (experimental) http://www.joernonline.de/dw/doku.php?id=projects:oocdlink:2_oocdlinks

• Other FT2232-based USB JTAG cables (experimental)

• TinCanTools Flyswatter

• Turtelizer 2 (experimental) http://www.ethernut.de/en/hardware/turtelizer/

• USB to JTAG Interface (experimental)

• http://www.hs-augsburg.de/~hhoegl/proj/usbjtag/usbjtag.html

• Blackfin gnICE http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=hw:jtag:gnice

• Blackfin gnICE+ http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=hw:jtag:gnice-plus

• Xverve Signalyzer Tool (experimental)

Other USB cables:

• Altera USB-Blaster and compatible http://www.ixo.de/info/usb_jtag

• Segger/IAR J-Link / Atmel SAM-ICE (experimental, work in progress)

• Xilinx Platform USB Cable / DLC9 (slow, experimental, work in progress - don’t use)

Other cables:

• Technologic Systems TS-7800 SoC GPIO builtin JTAG interface

2.3.4. JTAG-aware parts (chips)

The data/ directory of the UrJTAG installation has some more, but at least the following are supported:

• Altera EP1C20F400

• Altera MAX7000 (w/ BSDL)

• Altera EPM7128AETC100

• Altera Cyclone I & II (w/ BSDL)

• Analog Devices Blackfin (w/ BSDL)

  • BF504/BF506

  • BF512/BF514/BF516/BF518

  • BF522/BF523/BF524/BF525/BF526/BF527

  • BF531/BF532/BF533

  • BF538/BF539

  • BF534/BF536/BF537

  • BF542/BF544/BF547/BF548/BF549

  • BF561

  • BF592

• Analog Devices Sharc-21065L

• Atmel ATmega128 (partial support)

• Atmel AT32AP7000 (partial support)

• Broadcom BCM1250

• Broadcom BCM3310 (partial support)

• Broadcom BCM5421S

• Broadcom BCM4712 (partial support)

• DEC SA1100

• Hitachi HD64465

• Hitachi SH7727

• Hitachi SH7729

• IBM PowerPC 440GX

• Intel IXP425

• Intel SA1110

• Intel PXA250/PXA255/PXA260/PXA261/PXA262/PXA263

• Lattice LC4032V

• Lattice M4A3-64/32

• Lattice M4A3-256/192

• Motorola MPC8245

• Samsung S3C4510B

• Sharp LH7A400

• Toshiba TX4925/TX4926

• Xilinx XC2C256-TQ144

• Xilinx XCR3032XL-VQ44

• Xilinx XCR3128XL-CS144

• Xilinx XCR3128XL-VQ100

• Xilinx XCR3256XL-FT256

• Xilinx Spartan-IIE

• Xilinx Spartan-3/E

• Xilinx Spartan-3AN

2.3.5. Flash chips

Not all chips are supported in every possible configuration, there may be untested combinations of chip type, bus width, …

• Intel 28FxxxJ3A (28F320J3A, 28F640J3A, 28F128J3A)

• Intel 28FxxxK3 (28F640K3, 28F128K3, 28F256K3)

• Intel 28FxxxK18 (28F640K18, 28F128K18, 28F256K18)

• AMD Am29LV64xD (Am29LV640D, Am29LV641D, Am29LV642D)

• AMD Am29xx040B (Am29F040B, Am29LV040B)

• Macronix MX29LV160, MX29LV320, MX29LV640

UrJTAG uses the multi-byte write mode if supported by the particular flash device. The flash code will automatically switch to this algorithm if the Device Geometry Definition reports that more than one memory location can be written in a single step (refer to CFI details shown by detectflash). Since multiple locations are written in a burst-like manner with only one polling sequence afterwards, the overall flashing performance increases by factor of 5-17.

In case you encounter any issues with the multi-byte write mode, run configure with the --disable-flash-multi-byte option and re-compile to disable this algorithm.