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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

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I'll test the board I have at work tomorrow and see if it fails ...

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The board I have works fine with the VCCIO jumper in either position.

The programmer hangs if the jumper is missing, since the FT245R VIO and the JTAG interface is powered via the jumper. The jumper is a 2x2 header, with only two valid settings, but four ways to insert the 2-pin jumper, so perhaps the people experiencing a problem did not jumper to pin 1 (which has a square shaped pin when you turn the board over).

Cheers,

Dave