Using Xilinx Platform Cable with non-Xilinx devices?

[CaptDon]

I guess this is kind of a backwards question. Can the platform cable (I have 3 versions, the white parallel port, the black USB version and the red USB version, all genuine Xilinx) be used on things like the GAL series? Do other manufacturers (I am mostly interested in small CPLD devices) support JTAG'ing by use of the Xilinx platform device? It seems the platform device is failure prone and among the Xilinx ISE software there are problems even recognizing the platform device between old and new versions of Windows. Should I ditch the Xilinx platform devices and find something more generic/recommended? Thanks all!!! Cheers mates!!!

[Jope]

AFAIK, the answer is no. Xilinx platform cables are only supported by Xilinx software. Openocd, which supports more programming cables than any other software, does not support genuine Xilinx cables. And I've never seen vendor tools supporting other vendor's programming cables.

[SiliconWizard]

AFAIK, the answer is no. Xilinx platform cables are only supported by Xilinx software. Openocd, which supports more programming cables than any other software, does not support genuine Xilinx cables. And I've never seen vendor tools supporting other vendor's programming cables.

Well, at least the Lattice ones (USB) are based on FTDI chips and should work fine with OpenOCD. (Conversely you can make your own FTDI-based JTAG adapters to work with Lattice tools.)