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14 years ago

Help with onboard programmer

Hi there, I'm developing a FPGA project, I don't know yet what FPGA I will use, stratix II or newer. Is my first FPGA PCB, I have seen on internet onboard programmers using PIC but I would l...
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14 years ago

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Hi there,

I'm developing a FPGA project, I don't know yet what FPGA I will use, stratix II or newer.

Is my first FPGA PCB, I have seen on internet onboard programmers using PIC but I would like to know if it possible to do a programmer like in DE2-115 so I can do onboard programming direct with quartus II without using third part programs.

Is it possible?

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This explains how to create an on-board programmer:

http://www.ovro.caltech.edu/~dwh/carma_board/fpga_configuration.pdf (http://www.ovro.caltech.edu/%7edwh/carma_board/fpga_configuration.pdf)

You can implement this with a microcontroller too.

If you want Quartus to recognize your programmer as a USB-Blaster, then there is no 'official' support for this.

However, there are a couple of internet projects that show how to do it; UrJTAG and FPGA4U.

http://fpga4u.epfl.ch/wiki/fx2

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/urjtag/index.php?title=cable_altera_usb-blaster

Cheers,

Dave