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Hi all,
I'm using Altera cyclone 3 starter board... can i use USB port for pc application (What should I have to add in SOPC and in the application)?Forum Discussion
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Altera_ForumNo you cannot.
The USB connector is only for programming the FPGA. The signal flow is: from the programmer software through the cable and the USB connector to the CPLD on the board which contains the equivelent of the USB-Blaster POD code - the output of which is a JTAG connection to your FPGA.- Altera_Forum
You can communicate through the JTAG interface using the JTAG UART, but you need the Altera JTAG driver stack installed on the PC to use the respective DLLs. There's also a second link, that enables the access method used in previous Terasic Dev Kits. It can work on the generic FTDI driver without the Altera stack.
It's a kind of serial Altera Forum topic. http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=18600 http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6682 http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6604 - Altera_Forum
thanks a lot for responses
