Digilab 2 Cable

[engineerjoe440]

I'm trying to work with a selection of old Digilab 2 products that I was given for a university project. From what I've been able to find, it seems that the boards are compatible with Digilent Adept 2 software (is this the best for programming these boards), and it seems that they use the DB-25 port for programming/data communications. Does anyone have cable/adapter recommendations so that I may interface this connector with a USB port? I understand that the product is retired, but I feel that I can still make it work for my prototype.

[vicentiu]

For data communications, look for a USB to DB-25 Parallel cable. (eg. link1, link2, link3)

There is somewhat of a chance that Adept would recognize such a cable and you would be able to also program the FPGA through it, but we can't guarantee that.

If Adept doesn't recognize that cable, you'll need to get one of our JTAG programming cables: JTAG-USB, JTAG-HS2 or JTAG-HS3 

Here is a table indicating which software supports which cable.