Hello everyone,
I've got a genuine TL866II Plus for several years, and am quite happy with it. However I noticed that Xgecu has released the T48 recently (and the high-end T56 previously). I'm wondering if anyone has tried the T48 and noticed any significant difference compared to the TL866II Plus, apart from supporting additional chips. For my perspective I don't feel like upgrading since my actual version does what I need. However, I have 2 questions for those who are familiar with those programmers!
When reading the T56 user manual, I saw that it is able to perform operations related to HDMI and VGA, using a specific adapter. As the EDID is just an eeprom directly connected to the video output I don't see the point of having a T56 to read/program this eeprom, the TL866 can indeed read and program this eeprom (I tried recently). Am I right?
My second question is about the ability for the T56 (and perhaps T48) to handle FPGAs via JTAG or SCPI. I read the specs of the T56 and it seems that it's fully reconfigurable and each pin is totally independant.
For now, I use a cheap USB Blaster dongle to program Altera FPGAs, which seems to be a basic JTAG device.
Since the XGecu programmers are already able to use SCPI to program devices, would it theorically possible for a T56 to send JTAG signal instead for selected ICs? Same question for Xilinx, I just went to the Xilinx site to check, their FPGA programmer uses JTAG and/or SCPI to communicate so I guess it should only be a software upgrade from XGecu? Am I missing something?
https://www.xilinx.com/products/boards-and-kits/hw-usb-ii-g.htmlThis would be great and probably would convince me to upgrade to the T56, to keep the number of hardware in my lab to the minimum...