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The pod is surprisingly easy to open - has a little slot right on the lid. No warranty stickers.
Its the cypress micro inside, cy7c68013a.
After that there is a 74244, which is nice of them since it might keep the pod alive if I plug it in wrong. Or at least make it easier to fix :) (actually the 74244 is probably needed to set the the IO voltage levels)
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Ok, this is a Cypress FX2. The USB-Blaster protocol was reverse engineered by Kolja Waschk and he wrote the original version of this code. Its subsequently been reused to implement these clones.
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With the pcb out of the case it seems the micro is the one that warms up the entire pod.
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It shouldn't. The FX2 only draws a few milliamps. I wonder if they have an error in their firmware.
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As soon as Chinese new year is over I am getting the Terasic pod. They are closed until the 30th.
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If you want to 're-task' your Cypress pod as a microcontroller development kit, let me know, and I'll post links to the Cypress FX2 download tool, and the open-source SDCC compiler.
Cheers,
Dave
Honored Contributor
