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14 years ago

USB Blaster VCC

Hello :) I'd like a quick confirmation about the USB Blaster. I'm implementing my design on a PCB, and I've to make a connector to programm my FPGA with the USB Blaster. So I decided to pr...
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14 years ago

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And by the way, do you know if ebay's cheap copy of the USB Blaster are functional?

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According to the link:

"The mini USB Blaster is another variation of original official altera USB-Blaster. It is based on Cy7C68013 MCU, which use firmware to emulate the FT232BL protocol and drivers and is compatible with original USB-Blaster."

So this version is based on a similar approach to this:

http://fpga4u.epfl.ch/wiki/fx2

based on some reverse engineering performed by Kolja Waschk (kawk)

http://ixo-jtag.sourceforge.net/

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/urjtag/index.php?title=cable_altera_usb-blaster

Ask the UrJTAG list whether they have used this cable.

I suspect that it will work fine.

Cheers,

Dave