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18 years ago

Sales Support & Product Suggestions Request

Hi, I am just starting with FPGAs and require product suggestions. We have a project that we would like to "burn?" into a FPGA or CPLD. What hardware do we need to burn the chips usin...
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18 years ago

I've bought the Terasic USB blaster, and it's been fine, getting plenty of use!

I can't guess why the Altera list price is so high for the blaster... they may have just not bothered to reprice it. Most cost sensitive customers will find the Terasic one, and many of the newer development boards have gone to integrating the blaster function.

My reading of the $150 Altera MAXII-DEVKIT-1270 dev board data sheet is that it includes the old Byte Blaster II cable, though. $150 isn't bad for a board that includes PCI connectivity.

\chuck