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16 years ago

Programming EPC1441 with USB Blaster

Hello. Anybody knows if it is possible to program EPC1441 with usb blaster anyway?. Depending on different datasheets it seems it´s possible using .sof in passive serial mode. But in other d...
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16 years ago

Seriously, you can't expect to find the answer in the USB-Blaster datasheet (although the latter shouldn't contain misleading information, which is apparently the case).

As I said, there is a datasheet valid for EPC1441, as stated in the Configuration Manual. See http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/cfg/cfg_cf52004.pdf. It only mentions Altera Programming Unit (APU) with respective adapters and third party programmer to program the device. In any case, it's one-time-programmable only.