Re: PCI JTAG on PC HW

["Peter Marek" <peter.marek@marekmicro.de>]

Usually the JTAG pins are not connected on PC motherboards....
All vendor supplied download tools use the parallel port and some extra
hardware to load FPGAs and program CPLDs. They connect to the target using
cables...

Regards,

Peter Marek
General Director
MarekMicro GmbH
tel.: 049-9621-9732-110
fax: 049-9621-9732-199
www.marekmicro.de

----- Original Message -----
From: "André David" <Andre.David@cern.ch>
To: <pci-sig@znyx.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 12:53 PM
Subject: PCI JTAG on PC HW


> Hi all,
>
> We have some JTAG configurable chips on the end of our electronics
> chain. This chain "starts" with an "in-house" developed PCI card over
> which we have "full" control.
>
> Now we'd like to use conventional PC hardware (& software) to relay the
> PCI JTAG lines to program our end chips by routing the PCI JTAG lines to
> the final hardware.
>
> But how do we access the PCI JTAG lines from the PC software side? Which
> (if any) retailed motherboards/chipsets support this?
>
> Any experiences?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andre
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