Description

The USB Blaster Download Cable interfaces a USB port on a host computer to an Altera® FPGA mounted on a printed circuit board. The cable sends configuration data from the PC to a standard 10-pin header connected to the FPGA. You can use the USB Blaster cable to iteratively download configuration data to a system during prototyping or to program data into the system during production.

It surpports the ALTERA total series FPGA/CPLD devices, Active Serial Configuration Devices, Enhanced Configuration Devices, and supports AS, PS, JTAG three download modes.

Key Features

• Performance
  • Supports ALTERA total series FPGA/CPLD devices.
  • Supports ALTERA total series Active Serial Configuration Devices.
  • Supports ALTERA total series Enhanced Configuration Devices.
  • Supports AS, PS, JTAG three download modes.
  • High-speed, stable, and internal FT245R+CPLD designed.
  • Supports 1.2-5V programming voltage.
  • Supports SignalTap II embedded logic analyzer.
  • Supports Nios II of embedded processor communication and debugging.
• Supported Softwares
  • Quartus II integrated development environment.
  • NIOS II IDE integrated development environment.
  • NIOS II EDS integrated development environment.
• Supported Devices
  • CPLD: MAX3000, MAX7000A/B/S, MAX9000 and MAX II etc.
  • FPGA: Stratix, Stratix II, Cyclone, Cyclone II, CycloneIII, ACEX 1K, APEX 20K and FLEX 10K etc.
  • Active Serial Configuration Devices including: EPCS1, EPCS4, EPCS16 etc.
  • Enhanced Configuration Devices including: EPC1, EPC4 etc.
• Other Features
  • High download speed: FT245+CPLD+244, close to the original ALTERA USB Blaster.
  • Download speed 1-3 times faster than other schemes, such as 68013 or C8051F.
• Connects to PC
  • Computer connection via USB 2.0 interface.
• Connects to target board
  • Target board connection via JTAG, AS, PS interfaces. The figure 1, 2,and 3 below shows the header pinouts of different interfaces.
  Figure 1. JTAG header pinout
  

  Figure 2. AS header pinout
  

  Figure 3. PS header pinout
  

LED Status

• Red LED: Power indicator
• Green LED: Signal indicator, the LED is on while downloading/programming

Downloads

Development resources:user manual, software, etc.
www.waveshare.com/wiki/USB_Blaster