Forum Discussion

Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
14 years ago

Question about USB Blaster

is it possible to program Cyclone III without using the USB Blaster block, using FTDI chip (like FT2232) instead? Also, besides the signals for JTAG (TCK, TMS, TDI and TDO), there are DCLK, AS...
Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
14 years ago

The FPGA can be programed in many ways

- JTAG (USB Blaster + Quartus or a JAM player)

- Active Serial/Parallel -- it loads it's configuration from a flash memory

- Passive Serial/Parallel -- it's fed it's configuration by another device

See Chapter 9 of the Cyclone III handbook.