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17 years ago

Cyclone III development board and USB FT245BL

Hi, I currently develop with the cyclone III development board (EP3C120N). The board features two USB chips. The Cypress chip is used for the byteblaster logic and as I understand the documenta...
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17 years ago

Hi,

thanks for the tip with the alternative jtag lib, I'll have a look at that.

I just got an answer from Altera, which is incredible:

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Thanks for using mySupport. According to your description, I know that you haven't managed the FTDI chip to be recognized by a connected PC. In fact, customers don't need to configure any dip switches to activate the FTDI. Please just try the following sequences:

1.Power on the Cyclone III development board

2.Plug the USB cable (provided with the kit) into USB connector J3 on the board and the other end to a USB port on your computer

Please let me know the result after you follow the above steps.

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