[hpsdr] Flynn

[Bill Tracey]

No ... the USBBlaster emulation was done using USB JTAG from 
<http://www.ixo.de/info/usb_jtag/>http://www.ixo.de/info/usb_jtag/ - 
this was fairly easy because we had and FX2 USB connection on Ozy and 
someone had done code to make the FX2 emulate an Altera USB 
Blaster.  We owe  kolja waschk, the author of USB JTAG a bit of 
thanks for making his code available for the world to use.

To do the same for Metis would be a *lot of work* .... you'd have to 
do a windows device driver that appeared to be a USB device (an 
Altera USB Blaster)  to the Altera programmer code but then talked to 
Metis via the Ethernet.  This would be a trival amount of work ... 
don't think we have too many folks on the crew fond of writing 
Windows device drivers.

Regards,

Bill

At 09:14 AM 3/23/2011, Chris Smith wrote:
>***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
>
><...snip...>
>Does a similar facility exist on Metis to allow this USBBlaster 
>emulation? Otherwise it seems to me to be a retrograde step to have 
>to pull the card you want to program, install the jumper, program 
>and then remove the jumper.
><...snip...>
>Cheers & 73
>Chris G4NUX


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