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14 years ago

ft2232 support in quartus II

Does Quartus II officialy support ft2232 as a fpga programmer?

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    No it does not.

    the only support is for the Arrow Bemicro board. when I tried to get the drivers from Altera they refused.
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    One might want to enable JTAG connection to the FPGA using a standard USB cable, anytime anywhere without the need for programmer.

    In my case I didn't have enough pins on the board for both USB and JTAG connectors.
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    There's a previous thread about the Arrow/FT2232 programmer option.

    http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20490

    The driver could be downloaded from arrow (and should be still available there), I don't see a problem to use it at least for personal purposes. The most problematic point is, that's it's considerably slower than USB Blaster particularly in debugging, as reported in the said thread.