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15 years ago

FT2232H as USB blaster and RS232

Hi my company have a project that have a very small number of pins to the outer world in order to save those pins we thought about using this chip. my problem is that I don't know how th...
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15 years ago

I'm trying to use the FT2232 instead of the standard USB Blaster, AND as a USB to RS232 bridge.

according to device data sheet it can work as bridge from USB to JTAG and RS232. what is not explained in the documentation is how to make it work with the Quartus.

FTDI supply a DLL file to make the USB to JTAG bridge, but I probably need some "glue" between the Quartus and this DLL.

I hope I made myself clear, I'm an FPGA guy, not a PC applications Eng. :)