On Saturday 21 November 2009, Duane Ellis wrote:
> It is just blindingly fast...

I suspect that many of those speed improvements can be
had even with a CPU-based solution ... if the CPU is
driving the JTAG interface directly, it can do things
like handshaking in microseconds, not the milliseconds
that a USB roundrip takes.

In terms of Open processes, I can imagine doing that
with various microcontrollers that come with USB (or
Ethernet) links.  It needn't be all that more pricey
than an FT2232H dongle.  Consider a board:

  USB -->  Cortex-M3 --> level shifting --> JTAG

Wouldn't be as fast as an FPGA, necessarily, though
if the level shifting were packaged in a CPLD there
might be scope to offload some of the most common
handshakes.  

Come up with such a board with initial "it works"
firmware ... and OpenOCD could speed things up
over time.

- Dave

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