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<Wanda[cis]> azonenberg: speaking of the platform cable, do you know of any resource that explains the... taxonomy?
<azonenberg> No
<Wanda[cis]> I know there are many versions of this thing but don't really know what they are or how to match the official names to USB ids
<azonenberg> I am aware of old generations that were basically LPT to JTAG breakouts afaik, i think they were just LPT bitbang
<Wanda[cis]> oh right those
<Wanda[cis]> I mean just the "USB Platform Cable II"
<azonenberg> (but i never opened one up there might be some intelligence)
<Wanda[cis]> there's like 7 distinct revisions of them. that I know of.
<azonenberg> i know there is a fx2 + 3s200 based version, the DLC10 I have
<azonenberg> and then i know there's the newer generation digilent FTDI stuff
<Wanda[cis]> mmm
<azonenberg> i am aware of the existence of others but have not opened any of them up or got my hands on them
<Wanda[cis]> do you have it somewhere on hand? I'd like to know what VID:PID it has (before firmware upload)
<azonenberg> the DLC10?
<Wanda[cis]> yeah
<azonenberg> ping me around 1800 pacific, i'm about to head out to a class i that will hopefully never find a use for
<Wanda[cis]> okay
<Wanda[cis]> ohhh I see
<azonenberg> (tl;dr planning rescue operations for large scale natural disasters)
<Wanda[cis]> hmm, also speaking of XCF*
<Wanda[cis]> is the programming protocol... documented?
<Wanda[cis]> I remember I reversed it ages ago, but then I'm the kind that finds it easier to read wireshark packet dumps than Xilinx documentation sometimes.
<Wanda[cis]> maybe I should write it down
<Wanda[cis]> ummm.
<Wanda[cis]> why does this thing have both firmware download images for XCF02S and XC3S200AN internal flash
<Wanda[cis]> bleh unpacking FPGA bitstream wrapped in XCF02S programming commands wrapped in XSVF is not something I want to attempt right now
<Wanda[cis]> or, for that matter, FPGA bitstream wrapped in whatever JTAG-to-SPI bridge they use for XC3S200AN programming
<whitequark[cis]1> lol
<whitequark[cis]1> that's cursed
<Wanda[cis]> there's a.... separate University Platform Cable USB-II?
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