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19 years ago

Debugging problem with USB-Blaster

I am having a problem while trying to debug Nios applications using a USB-Blaster. On my own laptop everything works fine. I have bought a new laptop for another engineer that I recently recruited to...
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19 years ago

the usb blaster is realy a problem with our target designs with cycloneII too

the only working solutions that fixed our problem with all usb blasters we have was to remove the yellow foil cable and replace it with a normal but short ribbon cable just long enough to fit into a pcb socket. i have modified 4 usdb blaster can could get all of them working. with the original yellow cable none of them was able to comunicate correctly. hope alter reads this.

try it out and make a ribbon cable of about 5 to 6 cm lenth

Regards

Michael Schmitt