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15 years ago

what do i need to run a FPGA chip

I bought a cyclone II EP2C20Q240 , and i want to download a simple program in it by JTAG, what do i need? NOW ,i have connect the vcc=3.3v and GND to the chip,the 50MHZ crystal is also ok; And oth...
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15 years ago

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error" can't access the JTAG chain".

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I usually use QuartusII under Linux, errors like this are commons if you do not have the permissions on the /proc/bus/usb/ directory, in particular to the one containing the USB Blaster device.