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Hardware Debugger: Parallel download cable will not work in Hardware Debugger.


Record #1543

Product Family:  Software

Product Line:  FPGA Core

Problem Title:
Hardware Debugger:  Parallel download cable will not work in Hardware
Debugger.



Problem Description:
Although the Hardware Debugger allows the Parallel cable to be selected as an in
terface, the Parallel download cable will not to work with Hardware Debugger.


Solution 1:

The parallel download cable will work with the DOS based XChecker software.
XChecker can be run from a DOS shell. To download a file to the parallel downloa
d
cable type, xchecker -port lpt1 <bit file or prom file>.



Solution 2:

The Xchecker cable will work with the Hardware Debugger and the DOS based Xcheck
er
software.



End of Record #1543