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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

FTDI chips & USB Blaster

I am just develloping a device which connects to a pc using a ftdi usb-chip solution - which is also used in the usb-blaster. If there is only one of these devices connected to the pc, everything wor...
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20 years ago

This sounds like a bug in the FDTI host software - USB-Blaster uses its own JTAG ID so there's no hardware reason why you shouldn't be able to connect them both at once. Have you tried talking to FDTI about this?

If you have two PCs available then a clunky workaround might be to connect the USB-Blaster to one and your hardware to the other and use Remote JTAG to get to the USB-Blaster.