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16 years ago

using a FT2232H to load a Cyclone 3

Does anyone have any helpful info regarding using a FTDI2232H to load an Altera FPGA
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16 years ago

This has been a topic of interest a lot lately.

One of our software guys just connected the active serial programming pins of the FPGA to one of the ports on the FTDI chip. Then through the software, he just bit bangs the fpga to load it. It's very fast. I can ask him for more details if you'd like.

In addition, FvM did the work to discover that the FTDI2232D can be loaded to mimic the one on the BeMicro development kit. Under such a configuration, the FTDI chip looks like a USB Blaster and can be used by the Altera tools to program the FPGA.

Jake