Waveshare XILINX JTAG Download Debugger Compatible XILINX Platform Cable USB FPGA CPLD in-circuit Debugger Programmer

I was previously using a cheap one I bought on ebay which suddenly died, so I needed one in a hurry, this one is reasonably priced and came quickly to finish my project off.

I bought these for work as they are a lot cheaper that the ones that came with our development kit. These cost £30 and do the same job as the 'official' ones which are several hundred pounds, what is there not to like. We did have tpo make up connector cables to use these but then so do we if we use the official one.

Making this work with Xilinx software on Linux got me some headache, but I got it working eventually. Once set up, it worked perfectly. One of attached cables fitted perfectly to the ancient CPLD board I had to program. Very useful!

These adapters don't ship with the correct cables for use with many Xilinx boards. The 2mm header is different. I can see why they've done it - the correct 2mm header is comparatively expensive - but without this you'll have to butcher the headers on some boards to be able to use the included cables, or face delay to get a correct connector.

Works well, comes with a variety of adaptors.Only niggle, in part due to the Xilinx software, I had to re-install the ISE webpack in Win64 mode to get it to be detected by Impact. Once I had done this, it worked fine.

Although this is not the official Xilinx platform cable it is significantly cheaper and I haven't had any problems with using it to program debug a board I have developed with an Artix-7 FPGA. Also it includes a very useful set of cables that cover almost all common JTAG header possibilities.

A neat JTAG programmer/debugger which just works out of the box. The various JTAG adapters are a big plus. Never had an issue with it, although my experience is still a bit limited.

Purchased this as a replacement and it arrived quickly and with all the normal connectors etc. and works well.Would recommend.