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15 years ago

Altium Nanoboard 3000 with Quartus

Does anybody know whether Altium Nanoboard 3000 (Altera edition) can be used with Quartus? The board seems to be good value for money but I am afraid to get stuck with using Altium Designer. Twice I ...
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15 years ago

I think your problem is going to be with the JTAG drivers. I'm pretty sure the Altium Nanoboard will not be seen by the Quartus programmer. So you could compile an image in Quartus and then manually download to the nanoboard using Altium but all your soft instruments would not work.

Technically feasible I believe but a PITA in practice.

I think the old Nanoboard 2000 gave you a direct JTAG port out the side or bottom that you might be able to build an adapter for a Byte Blaster.

My current board design is a derivative of the Nanoboard 2000 and it has worked but not without a few headaches.

David