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Is $50 Terasic Blaster a correct product for Altera MAX7000A ?

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unitedatoms:
I am choosing the programmer cable for Quartus II Lite software to program the MAX 7000A chips. I don't have experience with CPLD, only starting.
I see a lot of bad revews about cloned $3 eBay Blaster programmers. However the genuine Intel device costs $225.
On Intel forums someone confirms that Terasic is an Altera partner.
https://forums.intel.com/s/question/0D50P00003yyPRMSA2/what-is-altera-postion-about-usb-blaster-clones?language=en_US
So I found their Blaster on Digi-Key.
https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/terasic-inc/P0302/P0302-ND/2003484

Does anyone know if this Terasic device works well and does not involve unsigned Windows drivers, hacks and blue screens of death ?

fourtytwo42:
In my recent experience with Altera FPGA's it is VERY platform dependent!
I actually have a cheepy Ebay USB-blaster working but I had to revert to winXP on a 32bit machine and use Quartus/standalone programmer version 12.0 to do it!!

I could not get anything working on 64 bit Linux at all (with any version of Quartus).

IMOP expensive programming hardware is a waste of money as I reckon it will suffer the same platform problems as the cheap ones.

george.b:

--- Quote from: fourtytwo42 on December 15, 2019, 06:43:01 pm ---In my recent experience with Altera FPGA's it is VERY platform dependent!
I actually have a cheepy Ebay USB-blaster working but I had to revert to winXP on a 32bit machine and use Quartus/standalone programmer version 12.0 to do it!!

--- End quote ---

My cheap USB Blaster clone from ebay works fine on Windows 7 64-bit. I have used it with MAX 7000S devices before. Dunno about Linux. :-//

ebclr:
I have the original one and the cheap clones, The clones works nears the same as the original one, does not waste your money and go to a good clone

james_s:
I've been using one of the $5 USB Blaster clones for years, it works perfectly fine on Win7 x64, a bunch of guys I know use them and nobody ever mentioned any issues.

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