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13 years ago

JTAG Chain problem - no device detected (Tried with multiple boards)

Hi everyone, I'm doing some work with custom cyclone III boards and am in the process of trying to program the device using a JTAG port and a USB Blaster cable. The boards were used last yea...
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13 years ago

Thanks for all your help Wombat,

turns out the problem was all bad communication.

It was written in the documentation to flash via JTAG

however after chasing up some previous members of the team

it turns out the board was set up for active serial programming.

Mat.