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1 How to make a safe JTAG adapter out of a generic unbuffered FT2232x board |
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4 Among the FOSS community of tinkerers who use OpenOCD to operate on the JTAG |
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5 interfaces of various hardware targets, one of the most common JTAG adapter |
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7 chip, most commonly one of FT2232x variants. However, a major distinction needs |
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9 happen to use an FT2232x chip internally, versus generic FT2232x breakout boards |
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10 which the user wires up for JTAG on his or her own. |
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12 In an ideal world, using a purpose-made buffered JTAG adapter (one that has a |
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13 buffer inserted between FT2232x I/O pins and the target connection interface) |
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14 would be strongly preferable for a whole host of reasons. However, to this |
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15 author's disappointment, there are very few community vendors who make such |
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16 adapters, and I was NOT able to find any high-quality buffered JTAG adapter |
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17 which can be bought in the present and which comes with published schematics. |
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18 (There is one very well-known vendor of "community" JTAG adapters who refuses |
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19 to publish schematics for their current model; they have an older model for |
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20 which they did publish schematics, but it is discontinued and they are not |
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21 interested in bringing it back into production or handing the complete design |
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22 over to the community - probably because it would then compete with their |
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23 current sans-schematics product! Selling JTAG adapters to the community while |
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25 business to such vendors.) |
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27 Given the current sorry state of availability of buffered JTAG adapters, I have |
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28 given more thought to the unbuffered option, and I found what appears to be a |
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29 way to make them safe - but my method requires programming the EEPROM on the |
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30 FT2232x board with a special custom configuration, and in this article I am |
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31 going to provide the full details and instructions. |
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33 To begin with, an unbuffered JTAG adapter (one in which the target JTAG signals |
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34 are connected directly to FT2232x I/O pins without any buffer in between) can |
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35 work only with targets that operate their JTAG interface at 3.3 V, or perhaps |
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36 a slightly lower but still fully 3.3V-compatible logic voltage level like the |
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37 2.8 V I/O on Calypso GSM baseband processors. An unbuffered adapter CANNOT |
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41 The next big problem with unbuffered FT2232x adapters is that if you don't put |
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42 a special configuration in the EEPROM (or if your FT2232x board omits the EEPROM |
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44 Channel A on FT2232C/D, can be either channel on FT2232H) is going to come up |
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47 JTAG. Why is it a problem? Answer: you need to connect the TDO line from the |
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49 power-up default UART mode this ADBUS2 pin is the RTS output. FT2232x RTS |
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50 output fighting with the target's TDO output - not good, and it could even fry |
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51 one or both of the chips. |
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54 to be configured in the EEPROM so that it is there right from power-up. But |
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55 there is a workaround: if the EEPROM config is set up to put Channel A (the one |
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57 all 8 ADBUS pins (including ADBUS2 where TDO will be connected) will power up |
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58 as inputs with weak internal pull-ups (as long as the ACBUS2 control line is |
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62 And if we need to program the EEPROM with a special custom config to change |
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63 Channel A from 232 UART to 245 FIFO, we can also assign a different USB VID:PID |
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65 channels of the FT2232x device are used as UARTs - the Linux kernel recognizes |
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77 As it happens, our company Falconia Partners LLC has received a block of 8 PIDs |
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98 only in JTAG and don't need an extra UART on Channel B, it should not matter |
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119 I generally prefer FT2232C/D for classicness and simplicity. Additionally, |
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120 FTDI's AN_184 document lists I/O pin behaviour of various FTDI chips including |
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121 FT2232D and FT2232H; according to this document FT2232H I/O pins go through a |
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124 time. Thus I strongly recommend using an FT2232D breakout board. |
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129 The officially recommended FT2232D breakout boards from PLDkit have 93C46 |
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130 EEPROMs on them, and the boards are shipped with blank EEPROMs. The blank |
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131 EEPROM state is perfectly good for operating the board as a dual UART, but our |
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132 JTAG application calls for custom EEPROM programming. A number of people in |
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133 the FOSS community have produced several different tools for programming FTDI |
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135 I am going to describe how to program the EEPROM using the tools which I |
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136 developed and which are used in production here at Falconia Partners LLC. |
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138 To compile my FTDI EEPROM tools, go into the fteeprom directory and run make |
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146 you can program the EEPROM for JTAG as follows - run this pipeline from the top |
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