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Honored ContributorI am also having the same problem with the CV boards. I bought two for two different project prototypes, a quick way to get a rough demo going. So far, I have wasted more time with this programmer issue than anything productive. This applies to both boards which are connected to two different computers. None of the I/O has been connected thus far, boards were to tested right out of the box first, that has been going on for three days now. One computer is Windows XP and one is Windows 7 64bit. Both boards fail the same when trying to program them. Active Serial always fails. JTAG worked occasionally but hangs every time now, even after cold reboots. Converting to a JIC file worked once, never again. Trying the active serial again after that, it seemed to erase the chip but never programmed it. I was getting some testing done until JTAG stopped working.
A real UB Blaster works flawlessly on the same computers with other boards. I sent a email to the Arrow Altera FAE late Friday afternoon, I'll repost if he has any answers. But it seems that the BeMicro blaster implementation is very poorly designed. Not sure what else to do other than try to modify for a real USB blaster interface. Any help is appreciated! I wish Altera would produce their own lo cot board that actually works. Also, why does this forum drop so many characters while typing? Very annoying, I have to manually correct one out of every four words. Joel
