Posts Tagged ‘ FT232RL ’

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 ]

libFTDI v0.18 with Ubuntu (Lucid Lynx)

Now that I’ve upgraded my computer, I no longer have a Parallel port which renders my Altera FPGA Compatible Programmer obsolete. Instead of buying a $300 USB-Blaster from Altera, I’m developing a much cheaper solution… In my next post I’m going to show a technique I’ve come up with to configure the Cyclone II FPGA [ 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 ]