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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 have used the FTDI FT2232C (used by Easy FPGA) by myself to connect a FPGA to a usb port. It is a great device and even more important, very well documented.

FTDI provides a dll that implements the JTAG protocol. It should not be that difficult to write a tool that sends data to the FPGA.

--wolf