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Altera_Forum
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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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I guess you noticed that that there are various reverse engineered USB Blaster CPLD sources on the internet as well as microcontroller based USB Blaster clones.

State-of-the-art would be however USB Blaster II.

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Yeah, I noticed.

I tried two clones. One works, the other crashes my PC and gives the blue screen :D