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18 years ago

byteblaster not showing up in hardware

Hi, I need help with my maxII eval board. When I go to program and verify, the byteblaster does not show up. I have a pci-parallel card in my dell computer and I have added that hardware to my ...
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16 years ago

The Byte Blaster driver is depending on low level pin control of the LPT port. This functionality isn't provided by any available USB-to LPT bridge, as far as I know. Some USB bridge chips have a low level control option, but no respective driver exists apparently. There are some internet projects of DIY USB-to-LPT adapters, that are said to handle also low-level IO, e.g. http://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~heha/bastelecke/rund%20um%20den%20pc/usb2lpt/index.html.en

PCCard LPT interfaces are an option to supplement a true LPT port for a notebook computer. Terasic USB Blaster is still the best option, I think.