Forum Discussion
Altera USB Blaster III LEDs usage
- 1 year ago
Hi AnttiLukats,
Thank you for your patience, and I sincerely apologize for not addressing your question directly in my earlier reply.
Regarding your inquiry about the meaning of the RGB LED colors on the on-board USB Blaster III, please find the detailed information below:
- Off: No power / not connected / suspend mode
- Blue: Connected, not in use
- Green: Connected, an application is using JTAG, no traffic
- Green flickering: Connected, data is moving through the JTAG interface
- Purple flashing: Identify function has been triggered on this cable
If you have further questions or need additional clarification, please don’t hesitate to reach out. I'm here to help and will ensure your concerns are addressed promptly.
Thank you again for bringing this up, and I appreciate your understanding.
Best regards,
Fakhrul
Hi,
jtag_hw_usb-blaster3.dll is expecting VID_0403 & PID6011, corresponding to FT4232H. It could connect to an Arrow-USB-Blaster with FT2232H after changing the PID and seems to use a similar JTAG connection scheme. It reads ID of connected FPGA, operation is however extremely slow compared to Arrow_USB_Programmer2 driver, apparently something is missing, may be a different method to set the operation frequency. Other than original Arrow driver, it's not supporting the clock frequency setting in hardware setup as shown below
Arrow-USB-Blaster with Arrow Driver
Arrow-USB-Blaster faking USB-BlasterIII