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15 years ago

Programming Harware

I'm an Altera newbie and am designing a board for a Cyclone III EP3C5E144I7N FPGA. I purchased a USB Blaster cable for configuration/programming. What typical hardware would need to be on the board t...
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15 years ago

For the a minimum partcount configuration scheme with serial flash configuration memory and JTAG connector, you can refer to figure 9–30. programming serial configuration devices in-system using the jtag interface in the Cyclone III device manual. It uses indirect JTAG programming of the flash memory.