USB clones and JTAG Indirect SFL mode

Thanks, Dave, I knew already about Terasic Blaster...

It is only that I hate paying for something that should be so simple, especially when it is costing more than the board actually been programmed. (It remember me times when I've started playing with FPGAs, in the nineties, when I used to build my own tools)

Anyway, fortunately, when I've ordered the FT245+CPLD few weeks ago, I've also ordered another cheap one, $8, which look very simiar like the one I used since months, the one with "sandpapered" MCU.

This one just came in this afternoon. I've tried with without much hope, but a big smile appear on my face : Hey ! this one is working ! and not intermittent at all ! Hourra ! :-)

I've open the small plastic enclosure, and discovered that it is completly different from the other, although the enclosures and stickers are similiar. This one is using a SiLab MCU with 74HC125.

Conclusion, yes, sometime it is maybe waste of time and money to try to save few pennies, but sometime it can be rewarded ... :-)

Ciao