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8 years ago

Do the UART and JTAG on Altera Max 10 Kit Conflict?

I'm using an altera max 10 development kit (https://www.altera.com/products/boards_and_kits/dev-kits/altera/max-10-fpga-development-kit.html) and successfully program it via USB Blaster JTAG header ...
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8 years ago

FvM, thanks. Looks like a problem with a long history.

At first I did not understand your suggestion, but I see the onboard USB Blaster uses a Cypress chip instead of FTDI. For some reason, I'm having trouble getting it to work at all (which is why I was using the old cable). I was thinking of trying an Ethernet Blaster II, but they are pretty expensive and for all I know have an FTDI chip in them.