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joe306
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4 years ago
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FPGA Programming Via USB instead of Programming Pod

Hello, I see that Digilent has a JTAG-SMT-NC module that allows the Xilinx tools to program the FPGA over USB with any FPGA programming pod. Does anyone know if there is such a chip that supports the...
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    SimonRichter
    4 years ago

    Hi,

    you can use any JTAG adapter you want, or build your own, provided you don't use SignalTap or time-limited components -- these two features still require the Altera USB Blaster.

    For any other design, convert your file to SVF format, that lists the exact sequence of JTAG signals to initialize the FPGA in a readable format that can be interpreted e.g. by OpenOCD.

    Simon

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SimonRichter
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4 years ago

Hi,

you can use any JTAG adapter you want, or build your own, provided you don't use SignalTap or time-limited components -- these two features still require the Altera USB Blaster.

For any other design, convert your file to SVF format, that lists the exact sequence of JTAG signals to initialize the FPGA in a readable format that can be interpreted e.g. by OpenOCD.

Simon

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joe306
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4 years ago

Thank you very much