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Honored ContributorCyclone III programming problem (JTAG and AS)
Hello All, Please help! We have a problem with Cyclone III devices programming. We are using the board with 5 Cyclone III devices, connected in Combining JTAG and Serial (ESPC64) configuration. Fi...
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Honored Contributor --- Quote Start --- this is another data file for this device. --- Quote End --- And this is supposed to tell us what? --- Quote Start --- i will be buying terasic usb blaster. but for that i need to make some changes in my board design. and that is going to take some time as the fabrication house will deliver the board after 10 to 20 days. --- Quote End --- Why? If you have a board with TCK/TMS/TDI/TDO on a connector, you don't need to make a board change, just create an adapter cable if you have not used the standard 10-pin Altera header format. --- Quote Start --- till that time i would like to try to make this thing work.i feel there is a very small thing that i am missing and that can make it work....please just see to the above data file... and let me know if there is anything i can do to make this start working completely... --- Quote End --- Sorry, I'm not going to be able to help decrypt the .svf file format. Its just not that interesting. If I needed to decode the programming sequence, I would trace the JTAG transactions from an Altera USB-Blaster and then compare that to the .svf file, i.e., to reverse-engineer the programming sequence, start off with a working programmer. Cheers, Dave
