[hpsdr] USB Blaster Mode

[Phil Harman]

Hi Doug,

Yes, the 'make the FX2 look like an Altera USBblaster' is a neat trick!

Just one point. The README file asks you to install the Altera 
Programmer code which is an 80MB down load rather than the 1GB of 
Quartus II.

As you correctly point out this is installed in a different directly 
than Quartus and hence the bat file fails.

I used the smaller download to make it a) consistent and b) a smaller 
download. I also expected (correctly it would seem :) that anyone with 
Quartus II already loaded would know how to modify the bat file.

Of course if you would like to modify the bat file to prompt the uses 
as to which programmer code he would like to use..........

As mentioned previously this is an interim step to fully automatic 
loading of the various FPGA/CPLDs via PowerSDR etc.  Its a pain to down 
load 80MB of data, which becomes 350+ MB when installed to use a few kB 
command line program. The 20+ dlls that are installed I guess are the 
reason we have to do this.

If anyone knows of a more efficient way of doing this then please share 
it with the group.

73's Phil..VK6APH


Quoting Doug Bade <kd8b at thebades.net>:

> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
>
> 	I just finished sniffing around in the SVN repository to figure out 
> how to upload Mercury firmware and have to say you guys blow me away 
> with the usb blaster feature in the OZY. I do own a parallel port 
> Quartus programmer I built last year for another project but this is 
> sweet !!!!!
>
> The only hitch is, as I did a new install of quartus81, it installed 
> the programming directory ( defaults) differently than the repository 
> batch file specifies... I edited my copy of the batch file ( annoying 
> the SVN integrity which I later fixed by making the batch file a 
> custom name and restoring the original) It all worked exactly as 
> advertised in the readme docs..
>
> My Hats off  to those responsible/guilty and I do mean that in the 
> most respectful and grateful way...  :-)
>
> I consider myself a power user ( I am a commercial radio tech/systems 
> enginner by trade) but not one of the inner circle here..
>
> It did not help in my usb scan issue with my atom 330 board.. but 
> still looking at that. It works fine on any pairing besides 
> 192k/2048....
>
> Awsome!!!!
>
> Doug
> KD8B
>
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