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12 years ago

Hardware needed to program EPCS device using JTAG

Dear sir, I am using Active serial mode to configure cyclone-IV E FPGA. I want to program EPCS16 device through cyclone-IV FPGA using JTAG interface. I want to know the details of hardwa...
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12 years ago

There are many vendors who make JTAG compliant hardware that would allow you to program your EPCS16. However, in the interests of simplicity I suggest you buy Altera's USB-Blaster:

http://www.altera.com/literature/ug/ug_usb_blstr.pdf?gsa_pos=3&wt.oss_r=1&wt.oss=usb%20blaster (http://www.altera.com/literature/ug/ug_usb_blstr.pdf?gsa_pos=3&wt.oss_r=1&wt.oss=usb%20blaster)

This has the advantage of interworking with Quartus and will support the method of programming the EPCS16 that I described previously.

Terasic also make an authorised version of that same cable:

http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=74 (http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?language=english&categoryno=74)