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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

Joel or anyone else here have you found any resolution to this problem?

I got a brand new BeMicro CV today as part of the BeScope kit. I programmed it first shot, zero trouble. The FPGA came up and is running great. The system console would not connect (just hangs; never detects the device) and I discovered I can no longer access the board with JTAG nor program it with any method. The symptoms are exactly as described here; the USB enumerates but nothing else.

I supplied the board with external 5V with no change.

I routinely develop with other Altera devices and have no trouble.

I am not even sure where to request support or report the issue. It took two months to get a SoCKit board RMA'd through Arrow when I had to do that before. These devices are supposed to promote designing with Altera parts, right? The only thing they are telling me is that you will have to spend more time fussing around on the test bench than you will be able to spend working!