Cyclone Based FPGA Dev Board With USB Cable Program Path

[aldorus]

Yet another FPGA Dev Board question.
Is there an Altera Cyclone Based FPGA Dev Board that allows programming
via USB cable?
This is not to be confused with the USB blaster setup. I need one that
has the programming hardware embedded and ease of use - so that I can
program using just an usb cable connected between my laptop and a usb
socket on the board.

Does this exist?

 

[Joel Williams]

Is there an Altera Cyclone Based FPGA Dev Board that allows programming
via USB cable?
This is not to be confused with the USB blaster setup. I need one that
has the programming hardware embedded and ease of use - so that I can
program using just an usb cable connected between my laptop and a usb
socket on the board.

Without knowing more about your budget and requirements, here are a couple:

http://www.knjn.com/FPGA-FX2.html

http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&CategoryNo=56&No=364

Joel

 

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 02/13/2011 06:54 PM, aldorus wrote:

Yet another FPGA Dev Board question.
Is there an Altera Cyclone Based FPGA Dev Board that allows programming
via USB cable?
This is not to be confused with the USB blaster setup. I need one that
has the programming hardware embedded and ease of use - so that I can
program using just an usb cable connected between my laptop and a usb
socket on the board.

Does this exist?

Most of the Terasic boards (http://www.terasic.com.tw/) do exactly this
(by having USB-Blaster compatible circuitry on the board itself.)

-hpa

 

[aldorus]

Most of the Terasic boards (http://www.terasic.com.tw/) do exactly this
(by having USB-Blaster compatible circuitry on the board itself.)

-hpa

Terasic seems to be the consensus. I am going to get a DE1. Thanks alot

 

[John Speth]

Is there an Altera Cyclone Based FPGA Dev Board that allows programming
via USB cable?

Does this exist?

Yes. Altera sells the Cyclone III FPGA Starter Kit (DK-START-3C25N). I
have one and can confirm it meets your stated requirements.

JJS