> On Jul 8, 11:12 am, "shivashankara" <shankaran.si...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> I am migrating from Spartan 3e to Cyclone III. We bought only cyclone III
>> starter board. We don't have any USB blaster download cable. I devloped
>> the my current design. Now i want to download into FPGA using USB cable.
>> What are the steps to follow?
>>
>> regards,
>> S Shankaran
>
> "We don't have any USB blaster download cable." - "I want to download
> into FPGA using USB cable."
>
> Unless I'm missing something here, step one would be to "Get a USB
> download cable."
Well, actually if (and only if) he does have a "Cyclone III Starter FPGA
Kit" (and just did not name it that way) the onboard usb-client port
together with the onboard clpd have USB Blaster functionality.
Nevertheless he can buy a USB-Blaster or even build such a JTAG cable
himself (at least for the serial (line printer) port there are numerous
examples on the internet. Nevertheless I'd suggest using the solution
one gets for free.
Regards,
Lorenz
Reply by LittleAlex●July 9, 20082008-07-09
On Jul 8, 11:12 am, "shivashankara" <shankaran.si...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am migrating from Spartan 3e to Cyclone III. We bought only cyclone III
> starter board. We don't have any USB blaster download cable. I devloped
> the my current design. Now i want to download into FPGA using USB cable.
> What are the steps to follow?
>
> regards,
> S Shankaran
"We don't have any USB blaster download cable." - "I want to download
into FPGA using USB cable."
Unless I'm missing something here, step one would be to "Get a USB
download cable."
Reply by Lorenz Kolb●July 8, 20082008-07-08
shivashankara wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am migrating from Spartan 3e to Cyclone III. We bought only cyclone III
> starter board. We don't have any USB blaster download cable. I devloped
> the my current design. Now i want to download into FPGA using USB cable.
> What are the steps to follow?
>
> regards,
> S Shankaran
>
>
I assume that what You do have is officially called "Cyclone III Starter
FPGA Kit" - right?
There is quite a good step-by-strep guide for a own design at:
http://nioswiki.jot.com/WikiHome/Cyclone%20III%20-%20Nios%20II%20-%20Starter%20board
You can also have a look at it's greater brother the "Nios II Embedded
Evaluation Kit, Cyclone III Edition" (you can download an example design
from Terasic which even includes the SDRam.
For actually downloading the bitfile there are quite a few methods,
either if Your design features the "remote update" IP-Core via remote
update or via serial or parallel programming pins which can be reused
later (see the nioswiki from above for a detailed step-by-step-guide).
Regards,
Lorenz
Reply by shivashankara●July 8, 20082008-07-08
Hi All,
I am migrating from Spartan 3e to Cyclone III. We bought only cyclone III
starter board. We don't have any USB blaster download cable. I devloped
the my current design. Now i want to download into FPGA using USB cable.
What are the steps to follow?
regards,
S Shankaran