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14 years ago

Accessing JTAG_UART from Matlab

Hi, I am trying to build an interface between an FPGA (Quartus-II 64-bit v11.1sp2) and Matlab (R2011b) using the JTAG-UART. Unfortunately the documentation provided by Altera for their DLLs is ...
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14 years ago

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I wonder if using the open-source libftdi drivers instead of the FTDI D2XX ones would work under Windows?

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I love open-source stuff, but libusb and libftdi are the classic case of "Open-source is free, assuming your time is worthless".

There's libusb, libusb-win32, libusb-1.0, libftdi, libftdi-1.0, and probably several other variants. Some of them work well under Linux, sort of work under Windows, some of them have crummy APIs, etc.

As I said, if you have more time to waste than I do ... :)

Cheers,

Dave