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14 years ago

isp/JTAG Programming?

I have been looking for the details of isp/JTAG programming. What I am looking for is a document that explains the internal process. Lattice does provide this information for their CPLD de...
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14 years ago

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Do I then assume that all the main isp/JTAG download instructions are universal for all CPLD chip manufacturers.

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No, unfortunately the instructions are not universal, even within manufacturers.

There's a series of extracted documents on this page:

http://www.altera.com/support/devices/configuration/schemes/jtag/cfg-jtag.html

If you click on the links to the sections from the device manuals, you'll see that most of the info is copied between the documents, i.e., there is a lot in common, that is all IEEE Std. 1149.1 related stuff.

IEEE Std. 1532 is the newer ISP standard.

http://www.altera.com/support/devices/tools/ieee/tls-ieee.html

I think some of the newer devices have ISP 1532 commands, however, you have to parse the BSDL files to get to that info.

Cheers,

Dave