Lattice MachXO2 JTAG is slow

[kalhana]

I'm using the Lattice MachXO2 Breakout board for some FPGA development.
But the issue I'm having is that the onboard FTDI JTAG is very slow.
It takes around 50 seconds to load a bitfile to the FPGA.
The JTAG on the board is identified in Lattice Diamond as "HW-USBN-2B (FTDI)".
I'm thinking of purchasing a "HW-USBN-2B" which costs around £130, but I'm not sure whether the dedicated tool will make loading the bitfile any faster.
Has anyone got any experience with using the standalone HW-USBN-2B?
If so, is it any faster than the onboard FTDI based JTAG?

Thanks!

[mikeselectricstuff]

Are you programming flash or RAM? For flash that sounds about right. For RAM it should be about 10 secs I think.
During development you should be using RAM download as it's much much faster, and only use flash when you need it to come on at powerup.
Also, I don't know if it's still the case, but last time I checked, the programmer software in Diamond was a lot slower than Lattice's standalone ISPVM software.
 

[kalhana]

Thanks for the help Mike.
Yes, I was using the flash rather than the RAM. Now it's much faster.