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BChri3
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7 years ago

Bypassing the USB Blaster on Terasic's Cyclone V GX Starter Kit?

Hi Everyone.... I have a Terasic Cyclone V GX Starter Kit board (Rev.B0). The on-board programmer has been giving me trouble lately and now refuses to work. It shows up on my computer as "USB Blas...
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BBona
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7 years ago

Hi BChri3,

we had the same problem with two CY5 Soc Boards from Terasic. Unfortunaly Terasic refused to send to us the USB Embedded blaster pof file ​ but they were OK to exchange the boards.

Fortunaly the boards have JTAG connectors. After some modifications ( removing and adding resistors) we could use the JTAG and jic file and finish the job before exchanging the boards. May be you can use the HSMC connector which has JTAG connections.

I hope it helps.

regards.