IRC log for #openjtag on 20080924

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18:40.40prpplaguedrath: greetings
18:40.46drathhey prpplague
18:41.07prpplaguedrath: any chance you had time to write up a wish list the next gen flyswatter board?
18:41.22prpplaguedrath: oh and any thoughts on the JRC support in openocd?
18:42.52drathprpplague: iirc you mentioned bit-banging the jtag signals - that feels a bit like wasted (computing) power to me
18:43.09drathprpplague: other than that, i guess an arm9 design that natively runs the openocd would be great
18:44.00prpplaguedrath: i'm not aware of any other jtag controllers other than the one that is available on the ft2232
18:44.28prpplaguedrath: besides, doing bitbang interface isn't too bad, the linux kernel supports bigbanging both i2c and spi directly
18:44.44prpplaguedrath: without significant impact on performance
18:45.51drathprpplague: have you done any measurements on the possible tck frequency? you'll need two writes and one read per cycle
18:46.11drathprpplague: the arm9s i've seen can do only few mhz
18:46.15drathprpplague: on their gpios
18:46.50prpplaguedrath: initial test shows i can get around 10MHz
18:47.50drathprpplague: oh, if the s3c24xx is that fast it shouldn't be much of a problem
18:48.17prpplaguedrath: the other possibility is to use the spi controller and just trick it into doing jtag
18:49.20drathprpplague: either that, if it's flexible enough (some spis are pretty stupid...), or a small cpld for example
18:50.31prpplaguedrath: any other features other than just having a network connection?
18:51.58prpplagueactually, bjdooks whats the best bitbang time you've been able to achieve on something like a 2440 ?
18:52.06prpplagues/2440/2410
18:52.44drathprpplague: a good analog part, with flexible voltage shifting, and some gpios left to implement support for things that go beyond plain jtag
18:53.26prpplaguedrath: a good analog part?
18:55.59drathprpplague: level shifting at ~10mhz wont be too easy
18:56.42prpplaguedrath: yea, the ti part we have is pretty solid
18:56.52prpplaguedrath: we are still testing some stuff
18:57.19prpplaguedrath: what do you think the minimal tclk freq would be for a midrange device?
18:57.24prpplague5MHz?
18:59.57draththe ftdi equals sustained 1.5-2mhz - twice as good is definitely a minimum
19:00.34prpplaguedrath: i'll setup some more tests with the scope to see what we get
19:03.13drathregarding the JRC stuff - if this is going to become common among newer uC designs, i would like to see a clean implementation that allows the jtag chain to be adjusted during runtime
19:04.26prpplaguedrath: yea, from what i can tell, this the way most manufacturers are going when more than one device is involved, such as arm+dsp

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