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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

Hi,

well as the USB Blaster was not available when Max2Plus was the toolchain, I doubt there is any option to use anything else than the supported units listed. IIRC the programming cables to choose are Byteblaster (Parallelport) and BitBlaster (Serial cable). The byteBlaster is still available as ByteBlasterII which should be useable instead of the original ByteBlaster. If you need USB cable I think you should generate the programming file with Max+PlusII and program this file with the Quartus WebEdition or the Quartus Stand-Alone Programmer...