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10 years ago

Programming cyclone III & IV using a custom USB Blaster

Hi all, I'm trying to make a USB blaster circuit. I'm prototyping with a cyclone III connected to an FTDI IC. This combination is effectively the same as you might find in devkits that have e...
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8 years ago

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this is... providing alternate lower cost usb- blaster? this is no open source design right?

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I wonder if it's time to make the Programmer protocol/interface (FTDI <> CPLD) public.

At the end of the day, we're using Altlera device.

Terasic version is US$50 and Altera Byteblaster is >$200. (And Clone version is $5 :D)

After so many years is just ridiculous.

Com'on Altera, I want to make FPGA dev kit as popular as Arduino.

:D