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16 years ago

Cyclone III vs USB Blaster Rev. B

I have had various intermittent failures when programming the Cyclone III (EP3C10F256C8) using Quartus II and Nios II ver 8.0, 9.0, and 9.1, two different computers, and two different USB Blasters (R...
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16 years ago

We had the same problem with RevB ByteBlaster. We removed the ribbon cable and replaced with a much shorter one and haven't had an issue since. The same board has no problem with RevC ByteBlaster either.