Archive for the ‘ Cyclone II ’ Category

SparkFun retires Cyclone II Breakout board

Usually, I would get a few people linking to Idle-Logic from SparkFun’s Cyclone II Breakout board product page. Looking through the logs recently I noticed that this trickle of referrals dried up. I went to investigate only to find that the board has been discontinued… sad times. Down the road I plan on making my [ READ MORE ]

Programming the Cyclone II using C++, libftdi and a FT2232H

Using a similar technique I covered in my last post, reader Bryan Richmond has been able to successfully program an Altera Cyclone II using C++, libftdi and a FT2232H USB/UART. From my understanding Bryan is running Debian on an ARM, and is programming the Cyclone II on his Morph-IC-II development board. I haven’t had a [ READ MORE ]

Programming an Altera Cyclone II FPGA with a FT232RL – Python Code

This is the final post in a series of three to explain how to use the FT232RL USB to UART Bridge to program a Cyclone II FPGA. The first part in the series describes how to compile and install the hardware drivers in Ubuntu that we need to use to access the FT232RL functions. The [ READ MORE ]

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

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 ]

Where has Chris been?

I have to apologize for being away from blogging for an extended period of time. Unfortunately, other priorities in life have gotten in the way of my Idle time. Much of my time has been divided between preparing for my Wedding which is coming up next month, and working on my house, most of which [ READ MORE ]