Spartan 6 Connectivity issue

The spartan 6 board is not getting detected in ISE. The connection is via JTAG. The board is getting powered on but it is not getting recognized when boundary scan is carried out in select target device phase. Kindly help in resolving this issue

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Jan Cumps over 2 years ago in reply to Krishnajdl10 +2

ISE is not compatible with it.
flyingbean over 2 years ago in reply to Krishnajdl10 +2

I installed Window 7(64-bit) for ISE14.7. Windows 10 does not work with ISE any more. You might try to use Linux/Ubuntu for ISE14.7.
flyingbean over 2 years ago in reply to Krishnajdl10 +1

I used this Spartan6 EVB a few years ago. I used ISE 14.7 with Xilinx JTAG debugger without any issues.

0 flyingbean over 2 years ago in reply to Krishnajdl10

I installed Window 7(64-bit) for ISE14.7. Windows 10 does not work with ISE any more. You might try to use Linux/Ubuntu for ISE14.7.
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0 Jan Cumps over 2 years ago in reply to Krishnajdl10

The official solution is the download and run the virtual machine that Xilinx made and is known to work..
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0 Krishnajdl10 over 1 year ago in reply to Jan Cumps

I have downloaded it as per your suggestion. The same error persists. Kindly help me how to proceed about it.
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0 saadtiwana_int over 1 year ago

Since the latest ISE version (14.7) uses a Virtual machine, please make sure the relevant USB-JTAG device is attached to the VM in the VM settings. By default all devices connected to the host are not connected to the VM.
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0 Krishnajdl10 over 1 year ago in reply to saadtiwana_int

It has been selected
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0 shabaz over 1 year ago in reply to Krishnajdl10

Hi,

You could try a different programmer. Either in the VM, or outside it (by transferring your bit file to outside the VM).

There are lots of different programmers, for example you could even use a Raspberry Pi as a programmer. You'd have to google to find a decent one. It is fairly common, because there were at one time a fair amount of plug-on boards for the Pi or BeagleBone Black that had a Xilinx FPGA for experimentation, and they needed a way to transfer the data. If you google "Raspberry Pi Xilinx Programmer" or similar, you'll come across it.
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