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Programming an Altera Cyclone II FPGA with a FT232RL USB to UART Bridge

February 21st, 2011
Posted in Altera . Cyclone II . FT232RL

As I alluded to in a previous post, I’ve come up with a way to program my Altera Cyclone II FPGA with a $15 FT232RL USB to UART Bridge, avoiding the $300 investment in one of Altera’s USB-Blaster cables. I’m going to break this tutorial up into three separate posts. The first has already been [ READ MORE ]

Installing Quartus II on Ubuntu Lucid

December 5th, 2010
Posted in Altera . Quartus . Ubuntu

Sorry for the radio silence the last few weeks, I’ve been real busy learning to transition myself from being a Windows guy to a Linux guy, and I have to admit there is a steep learning curve. Plus, I’ve been working on creating a $15 alternative to the normally $300 Altera USB-Blaster, but I’ll talk [ READ MORE ]

Cyclone II Breakout Board – “Hello World”

March 22nd, 2010
Posted in Altera . Cyclone II . fpga . saturn project

I threw together a quick demo to prove to myself that my FPGA was powered and working. It was important that the demonstration used some form of sequential logic, so that I could be sure the clock was alive and running as well. The ideal quick and easy first project would be to just output [ READ MORE ]

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