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8 years ago

General question about EEPROM

Hi I recently had a problem with my dev kit- when I plugged it in to my computer, it showed up as a USB serial device as opposed to a USB blaster. The extremely helpful forummers here informed me ...
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8 years ago

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Also, there should be another connector for USB Blaster which uses the 10 pin male header for JTAG programming to the FPGA.

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There's no 10-pin header for FPGA JTAG programming at the DE2-70 kit the user is asking about. Only an unpopulated header for USB Blaster CPLD factory programming.

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The two functions you speak of are located in two different non-volatile memories (EEPROM) on your board.

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Yes, the previous FPGA program is stored in EPCS16 AS flash.