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Build A ByteBlaster
Posted February 14, 2008 by Chris
FPGA & CPLD devices are becoming all the rage for things like prototyping to fast time to market needs. With this ByteBlaster cable you can program Altera & Max2 devices without having to pay the big price tag on altera’s cables.
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September 1st, 2008 at 7:33 am
I have “original version” of this cable (made by Altera) and I must say it’s pain in the *** to use it. I would definitely recommend using some USB JTAG Interface such as http://www.jtagtest.com/viatap which already has ByteBlaster-compatible pinheader and can be used directly to program any PLD devices via SVF files using http://www.jtagtest.com/
September 5th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Would like to build my own byteblaster but I do not see a link or file that I can use to get the details needed to build one.
Please help.
Thanks!
September 5th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Click the ‘Read’ link.
June 24th, 2010 at 9:43 pm
So, throughout the tutorial you refer to a ByteBlaster MV tutorial, that doesnt seem to exist…