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11 years ago

MAX7000 programming question

Hello, please advise - I am starting using MAX7000S device - PLCC44. It has 8 power pins, 4 JTAG pins and 32 user i/o pins. I needed more than 32 pins for i/o, and disabled "JTAG BST support", giving...
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11 years ago

If JTAG is disabled, the device can be only reprogrammed by external programming hardware like the the Altera "Master Programming Unit" or supported third party programmers. So disabling JTAG should be considered wisely before.