Project Info
Author: Chris
Difficulty: Medium
Time Invested: 3 Hours
Prerequisites:
to complete this tutorial.
For testing you will need
Quartus II installed.
Author: Chris
Difficulty: Medium
Time Invested: 3 Hours
Prerequisites:
- None
to complete this tutorial.
For testing you will need
Quartus II installed.
Newer PLD devices now let you do in circuit programming. The ByteBlaster cable is a generic JTAG style programmer that is compatible for programming Altera & Max PLD devices.
The normal ByteBlaster cable is a bit expensive! We can build it for $15!


Overview of this project
The purpose and primary goal of this project is to build a working standard ByteBlaster cable. We'll do this by taking a generic DB-25 connector and adding some simple extra circuitry & wire to it. This will essentially create a programming cable for the following devices:
-Program MAX 9000A, MAX 7000S & MAX 7000A devices.
-Configure FLEX 10K, 8000 & 6000 Devices.