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10 years ago

Can I use the BEMICRO MAX 10 to program the MAX 10 FPGA Evaluation Kit?

Hello everybody Taking a look to the schematic of the Arrow BeMicro MAX 10 tool I could see a connector labeled "USB_Blaster_JTAG" (J7). Then looking for images of the tool I can see that this ...
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10 years ago

Hey,

The port J7 is actually a cool feature. It allows to you steer the JTAG to program the external device instead of the on board MAX10.

There's a voltage detect pin signal that goes to the CPLD and the CPLD steers the Blaster to the J7 header.

Then you'd have a cheaper USB-Blaster for 30bucks :D

Jeff