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12 years ago

Programmer freezes on BeMicro CV - used to work fine

Help! I have 4 BeMicro CV boards that all of a sudden do not program. The programmer freezes up until I unplug the USB cable. When I try to use the JTAG debugger tool, the same happens - the Quartus ...
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11 years ago

I concluded that I had somehow blown up my boards (yes, all 4 at once). I had them powered together thru a USB hub and suddenly none of them would program ever again. Perhaps it was a power surge or ESD (both very unlikely, however). And it seems to have killed only USB functionality - the FPGAs all still ran fine. I didn't have time to deal with it so I ordered replacements and then was able to program the new ones with the identical setup and files.

Please let me know if you solve your problem and/or find out anything from Arrow/Altera. Best of luck!