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18 years agoCyclone2 not working - new design - Any suggestions?
Hi I have a new design with an EP2C5Q208C7 CycloneII on it. I use a byteblaster to program it via JTAG and it tells me it was programmed successfully but it does not appear to do anything. I ha...
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18 years agoApparently the chip is in unconfigured state with weak pull-ups causing the LEDs to glow a bit. If the power supply is O.K., there may be an issue with configuration related pins. Did you pay attention to all requirements in this regards, e. g. necessary pull-up or pull-down resistors, setting defined level to some additional pins as said in the device handbook? See: Figure 13–22. jtag configuration of a single device using a download cable and respective notes.