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tell me if this makes sense i was thinking of using the same byteblasterMV cable using my laptop and buy usb to parallel port cable as byteblaster mv has a parallel port connector on one end. hopefully it would work.
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Its highly unlikely that you will get it to work. I haven't heard anything good about parallel port programming with USB-to-parallel ports, so don't hold much hope for Altera's interface supporting it.
If it did work, it would be really really slow, since the ByteBlaster cables are digital I/O, eg., set TCK = 0, set TMS = 1, TCK = 1, then 0, etc. All those operations will occur in USB transactions every 10ms (or 1ms I forget) ... give up now!
For $50, just buy a USB-Blaster.
Cheers,
Dave
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