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17 years ago

I'm new to FPGA and have a question

Hi There, I have recently purchased a DE1 kit with the Cyclone II FPGA on it. I have had a go at VHDL and found it enjoyable, so far the most complex thing I have created was a 4 bit parallel ...
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17 years ago

If USB Blaster would be still too expensive, a homebrew ByteBlaster II (printer port operated JTAG adapter) could do. JTAG in-circuit programmability is usually the best solution for production scale, for development phase, JTAG interface is effectively indispensable, independant of main configuration source. In an embedded system, the FPGA configuration can be also provided by a processor, e. g. using passive serial scheme, but JTAG should be still designed to the board.