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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

slowish neek software download speed

Hi, I notice that my software download speeds with the NEEK evaluation board aren't blindingly fast. Is this normal, and are there any parameters I can set, or any alternative hardware I can pu...
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12 years ago

I tested the USB-Blaster vs the Ethernet-Blaster and found the Ethernet device to be only slightly faster, but it was faster. It may have single stepped a little snappier too. It was not enough to switch because for me using Ethernet requires running Quartus to get the debug server running. I could never load Eclipse and debug without running Quartus first.

Also "real" Altera USB-Blasters are *way* faster than clone (e.g. Terasic) Blasters. Another case of you get what you pay for.

Bill A