[hpsdr] Looking for a Procedure for using Terasic USB Blaster to Upgrade Firmware

[Phil Harman]

Chris,

I can assure you that I would dearly love to have this facility when using 
Metis. Adding JTAG programming support from Metis was more difficult than 
writing the entire Ethernet code and took almost as long.  There were 
numerous errors and omissions in the Altera documentation, as well a 
proprietary code, and there were many times when I seriously considered 
shipping a Chinese USB Blaster clone with every Metis board :)

I was able to  read the JTAG chain, and detect multiple cards, but I 
couldn't get the code to work to program any card in the chain.

If someone is willing to have a go I'd be more than happy to support them.

73 Phil....VK6APH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Smith" <chris at vspl.co.uk>
To: "Bob Mahrenholz" <bobm at edge.net>
Cc: <hpsdr at lists.openhpsdr.org>; "Phil Harman" <phil at pharman.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2012 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [hpsdr] Looking for a Procedure for using Terasic USB Blaster 
to Upgrade Firmware


Bob

Roland Etienne, F8CHK, wrote a document showing how to do just this with the 
GUI. I've attached it in case it is useful.
I used to use it before I swapped to Metis from Ozy. I could leave the 'Last 
JTAG' on the board furthest from Ozy and not need to move jumpers each time 
I updated f/w. It's a shame the same facility isn't available for Metis 
based systems - but that's progress! :-)

Cheers, 73 & Happy New Year

Chris G4NUX




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