[Fpga-synth] All of the jumpers are set but the Done LED doens't light up

[Scott Gravenhorst]

"The making of synthesizers in FPGAs." wrote:
>ok, i'm just using a regular USB cable, so that can't be the problem, correct?

That would be my guess, but I do not know whether there is anything special about the cable
or not.  

Is it the cable that came with the board?  That cable should work.




>
>On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:50 AM, Scott Gravenhorst <music.maker at gte.net> wrote:
>> "The making of synthesizers in FPGAs." wrote:
>>>i wonder... i'm sure i can use any old usb cable since i'm using the
>>>type b usb port
>>
>> Not sure exactly what you mean by that, but iMPACT supports 
>only certain specific cables. For > example, the JTAG-USB cable 
>is NOT supported by iMPACT. The Spartan-3E can be programmed with 
>the > USB cable it came with (I don't know if there is anything 
>special about it - I think it's just a > standard cable) OR it 
>can be programmed with a Digilent Parallel-III cable when plugged 
>into the > board's JTAG port. > >>On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 7:26 
>AM, Scott Gravenhorst <music.maker at gte.net> wrote: >>> "The 
>making of synthesizers in FPGAs." wrote: >>>>Hi, >>>>I have a s3e 
>sk and all the jumpers are in there default positions but >>>>the 
>done LED doesn't light up. I'm using ISE 9.2i. >>>>When i perform 
>a boundry scan, iMPACT tells me that it detects many >>>>devices 
>and asks me if i want to continue. >>>>if i do, iMPACT just 
>hangs. >>>>Can someone please help? >>>>No offense to anyone here 
>(you might work at digilent) but they're >>>>simply trying to 
>give me the brush off. >>>>and i've even begged them for help. :/ 
>>>> >>> I had a problem a while back that has one of your 
>symptoms. I really wish I could >>> remember all of the details, 
>but I can't - it started when I bought a second FPGA >>> board, 
>different from the Spartan-3E Starter. The new board uses a 
>different >>> programming cable (I can't remember the details) 
>and gave me the "detects many >>> devices" response. For whatever 
>reason, iMPACT was trying to use the wrong cable. >>> When I 
>force-selected the correct cable it worked. I seem to remember 
>this >>> happening when I bought the _wrong_ USB cable for the 
>board in question (Digilent >>> JTAG-USB). >>> >>> If you have 
>more than one programming cable plugged into the computer, I'd 
>pull out >>> all but the one you need and try it again. >>> >>> 
>>>> -- ScottG >>> 
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