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Altera_Forum
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17 years agoSomething is wrong with this board, or at least with the documentation. I just read the reference manual, and it claims that the Cypress chip is reserved for future usage! Can't believe it! How come something so important could be reserved and not usable!
Are you sure this chip is populated? I remember some other similar board, don't remember which one, it included the footprint only. Anyway, I don't think you need to use the Cypress chip. For a simple control usage, the FTDI/USB Blaster interface is good enough. Check the "In Systems Source and probes Editor" scripting capability, that might be your best solution. You don't need to install NIOS, or Quartus, just the standalone Quartus Programmer, and actually not even completely.