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Offline ebclr

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Re: Altera FPGA and Quartus II
« Reply #25 on: June 15, 2016, 03:46:52 am »
Now days  you can easily find cheap Cyclone IV
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Offline nForceTopic starter

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Re: Altera FPGA and Quartus II
« Reply #26 on: June 15, 2016, 07:01:03 pm »
These IV boards have a micro USB input. Do you program them by an USB cable? They don't need a USB blaster?
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Re: Altera FPGA and Quartus II
« Reply #27 on: June 15, 2016, 07:42:59 pm »
On most boards the USB connector is for power supply only. On some board it's connected to a FT232 converter, but on neither you can program by USB. You need a USB Blaster, but the USB Blaster clone is very cheap.
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Re: Altera FPGA and Quartus II
« Reply #28 on: June 16, 2016, 03:26:16 am »
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Re: Altera FPGA and Quartus II
« Reply #29 on: June 16, 2016, 11:44:16 am »
Quote from: 1N4148 on June 15, 2016, 07:42:59 pm
On most boards the USB connector is for power supply only. On some board it's connected to a FT232 converter, but on neither you can program by USB. You need a USB Blaster, but the USB Blaster clone is very cheap.

That's quite simply not correct.
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Re: Altera FPGA and Quartus II
« Reply #30 on: June 17, 2016, 07:55:42 am »
What's not correct? I don't know a cheap Altera board which can programmed by USB.

But if you do, it would be nice to share this information with us.
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Re: Altera FPGA and Quartus II
« Reply #31 on: June 17, 2016, 10:38:22 am »
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Re: Altera FPGA and Quartus II
« Reply #32 on: June 18, 2016, 09:47:30 am »
We were talking about *cheap* Cyclone IV boards. None of the Cyclone IV boards in your list is cheap regardless of having an onboard programmer or not. So my statement was correct.
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Re: Altera FPGA and Quartus II
« Reply #33 on: June 18, 2016, 07:53:45 pm »
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Re: Altera FPGA and Quartus II
« Reply #34 on: June 19, 2016, 12:47:39 pm »
Quote from: 1N4148 on June 18, 2016, 09:47:30 am
We were talking about *cheap* Cyclone IV boards. None of the Cyclone IV boards in your list is cheap regardless of having an onboard programmer or not. So my statement was correct.

Perhaps *you* were talking *only* about cheap boards. I wasn't. As far as I can see, others weren't either. And 40$ doesn't really qualify as expensive.
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Offline pkplex

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Re: Altera FPGA and Quartus II
« Reply #35 on: June 20, 2016, 03:27:42 am »
I picked up a second hand DE0 which is a cyclone 3 variant. My first FPGA.

I have to say, they are a lot of fun to play with. Currently learning both VHDL and Verilog, making clocks, making VGA do the business, next step is to try and make a semi modular gui and start displaying sensor outputs... it is epic fun.

It has all the blinky leds and a few buttons on it, an LCD and 4 seven segment displays, vga out, PS2 in, heaps of switches.. good times :)

Oh, and USB Blaster built in. It was $180 NZ.

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