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14 years ago

FTDI Morphic IC II Dev Module Review

This is a link to the review I have just completed on the FTDI Module. This has the Cyclone II chip on it and a FT2232H FTDI chip to act as USB to JTAG interface. full review can be seen on the...
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14 years ago

I think usage of MPSSE allow to store bitfile in device drivers. So it loads bitfile when card is connected to computer and drivers startsup. This remove need for configuration device.

MPSSE is FTDI own block for I2C, SPI and JTAG communication. This JTAG mode is commonly used in ARM debugging with openOCD.

I think that Cyclone II was rather small (only 4k LE). When you check what terasic used in DE0-Nano Cyclone IV (22k LE) and this is almost smallest what they used in dev boards.

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I think this is good card for IO expansion for computer. You can't do much with 4k LE but is more than enought for IO expansion and some simple data handling and calculation.