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16 years ago

Hardware Reference Design

Hello I have been looking for a very simple programming circuit for cyclone III FPGA's for the past 6 months or so, and have not been able to find one...then the next thing I know bemicro came out wi...
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16 years ago

FVM,

There is no CPLD on the BeMicro.

When you plug the BeMicro into the PC, it basically shows up as an "Arrow USB-Blaster". It looks and behaves just like a USB-Blaster cable would and the Altera software appears not to distinguish between the two.

My guess is that they've written the software driver on the PC to do the work that the MAX CPLD did on other development boards. I assume they are using the FTDI chip in JTAG mode but the driver is providing that interface layer between the Altera world and JTAG.

Jake