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16 years ago

Custom PCB Design

Hi, I'm done with verification of my design on Altera's S3 dev board and doing the schematic of my own board. My plan is to derive my board from the dev board. Is this a good way of practice? ...
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16 years ago

Thanks for these informations.

To sum it up, it would be hard to speed up the JTAG and explains why there is no faster JTAG Blaster available.

The JTAG modul itself takes about ~44% of the available logic a EPM240 has, so the rest could be used for example for an SPI interface between the user flash memory the MaxII device has and external components for non volatile data storage.