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Occasional Contributor@FvM thanks for detailed report, very interesting. Well we have not had a cheap USB blaster on our desk yet. Funny there are so many illegal clones available on the asian market.
But it is not only the asia who does do USB blaster emulation, uLab Kiwi is promoted by Altera Innovations Lab:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/altera/innovation-lab
and the uLab Kiwi emulates USB blaster using PIC18! So Altera is advertising a product that will force the end user to violate FTDI drivers license.
Frequent ContributorNot quite accurate. 'Altera Innovation Labs' is NOT in any way an official Altera and/or Intel site.
It belongs to CrowdSupply.
From the description: "Welcome to Altera Innovation Lab at Crowd Supply, the place to find out about the latest and greatest Crowd Supply projects built on FPGAs from Altera."
So 'Altera' is NOT promoting the clone uLab Kiwi USB Blaster design in the CrowdSupply site. CrowdSupply is.
The clone USB Blaster I use is the TerAsic one ... https://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&CategoryNo=74
Super ContributorOccasional ContributorTerasic is licensed to produce USB Blaster compatible products. They for sure do not use FTDI emulation devices!
Occasional ContributorWell Altera is promoting "Altera Innovation Lab", so indirectly Altera is promoting also the uLab Kiwi!
