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12 years ago

JTAG- USB byteblaster programming cable

Dear sir, We plan to connect all the devices in JTAG chain (please find the document attached) in a board. When programming cyclone-IV FPGA using JTAG interface using USB byteblaster, do we ...
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12 years ago

While I had not real life testexperience with USB => Parallel => Masterblaster and besides the timing issues, I would argue if this combination would even be detected (i.e. installation of MasterBlaster device driver be supported) and thus maybe the programming hardware itself might be not supported by Quartus..

"Native" Quartus II 13.0 installation does not show up a Masterblaster on Programming Hardware Setup (which is not surprising).

There are no issues in changing to JTAG programming via USB-Blaster (ALTERA or Terasic). If you need (for whatever non technical reason) keep the MasterBlaster, I assume you need a PC with "real hardware parallel port" (Desktop PC) and perhaps you'd also need XP as Operating system , while this might be achievable with the Win7 XP mode.. A lot of "could, might, perhaps" compared with the USB-Blaster solution, isn't it...