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Altera_Forum
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Any chance of altera doing the following:
1) write an upload stub which when it goes to upload a program it downloads the stub via jtag into memory and starts executing. 2) the stub simply contains a small program which initialises the ethernet interface and then waits for a connection 3) after the stub begins to execute the pc then downloads the program via ethernet and then starts executing that program. 4) compile, repeat, compile, repeat, etc....! Presumably you could get the stub very small. This would be far sweeter than downloading large programs over the byteblaster. Adrian13 Replies
Altera_Forum--- Quote Start --- originally posted by kerri@Aug 9 2004, 03:48 PM i'm not sure. hopefully they'd have it coming through a uk distributor. --- Quote End --- Ahh that'd probably also make more sense. It says something like "wont ship until 30 september", I kind of read that as altera wont ship them until 30th september, i.e it'd come from the states. Maybe I'll check it out in the store and see what it figures for shipping. Adrian- Altera_Forum
Shipping to New Zealand was listed at about US$40. but the site wouldnt accept my credit card anyway. I think because they were checking the billing address against what the credit card company listed and found a difference because they had insisted that I put down a value for what state that I lived in but we don't have any states in New Zealand.
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They'll have to figure that out... I'll send your post over to ??someone??
I asked about the cost. I was told. This really isn't a 'get a USB blaster for free" program. It's a if you're having problems, here's a 300 dollar cable for the cost of shipping. So, I guess it's a great cheap way of getting one. Plus they're super fast and look cool!
