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Altera_Forum
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16 years agoHi,
I have checked your SVF file - looks quite neat, and abides by the standard well. As for the jam file,its a literal translation of the SVF file, and so, looks fine as well. I did a check on the Altera knowledge base, and there is a small, but significant caveat with regards to Quartus II programmer: http://www.altera.com/support/kdb/solutions/rd05072004_1171.html?gsa_pos=2&wt.oss_r=1&wt.oss=non-altera Specifically the wonderful part: you can not use the quartus ii software to program non-altera devices. Bummer. No wonder I've had some much trouble. A guess it checks the ID code of the device (which for you, you have added manually) and if its not an Altera part, it won't let you add any form of programming file...I guess they allow for non-altera devices to be in the chain, purely so you can bypass them, and configure their devices. So, it looks like using the USB blaster with Quartus to for your maxim device is out! Wonderful. If you have no luck using urjtag, or openOCD, then I itnhk the only way to configure your maxim device would be to knock up sometihng like this: http://www.students.tut.fi/~leinone3/dcn2692/ispcable.png (http://www.students.tut.fi/%7eleinone3/dcn2692/ispcable.png) You can ignore the ispEN and reset lines. And perhaps even the buffer itself...I have just used resistors before, straight from the parallel port. In the meantime, I'll keep working on my code :)