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Altera_Forum
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20 years ago

jtag via usb

The Nios II Evaluation Kit is able to download its Jtag commands directly through its USB cable. Apparently it has implemented the USB Blaster functionality on a MAX EPM7064B CPLD which is on the ev...
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20 years ago

I do not belive that Altera will ever provide the source for the cpld on the evaluation kit. Just because they want to sell their usb blaster and there are not a lot of free usb controller designs out there.

For in field programming I would suggest a boot loader. Their are quite a few available for free that should fit your needs.

--wolf