Posts Tagged ‘ Ubuntu ’

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 ]

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 ]

Installing Quartus II on Ubuntu Lucid

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 ]

Getting my Acer X3400 WIFI working in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

As I mentioned in my last post I’ve made the transition into the Linux world. There are a bunch of different distributions of Linux available, here is a list of the major ones. My main motivation for going with the Ubuntu flavor is because it seems to be the distro with the most hype these [ READ MORE ]