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Altera_Forum
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18 years ago

choose proggrammer

hello, someone has already used masterBlaster or usbBlaster? which of the two advised to me? thank you... Stefania:)
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18 years ago

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I had an issue with the Terasic blaster,

when I leave it on the jtag socket,

my fpga does not start, issue that I don't have with the altera usb blaser.

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That's interesting - we see the opposite behavior in active serial mode - with the Altera usb blaster, we have to disconnect it after programming; with the Terasic, we can leave it connected. Again, that's Active Serial mode. We use JTAG for Signaltap and nios2-gdb-server, but I never did try to get EPCS programming to work via JTAG. When we do use JTAG, I have never had a problem with the device not starting. We're using Stratix II.

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