Altera / Intel USB-Blaster Download Cable

Altera USB-Blaster™ Download Cable interfaces a USB port on a host computer to an Altera FPGA mounted on a printed circuit board. The cable sends configuration data from the PC to a standard 10-pin header connected to the FPGA. You can use the USB-Blaster cable to iteratively download configuration data to a system during prototyping or to program data into the system during production.

Features

Drives configuration or programming data from the PC to configure or program Intel FPGA devices
RoHS and USB Full-Speed compliant
Supports standard Full-Speed USB PC ports
Supported Devices
- Stratix® series FPGAs
- Cyclone® series FPGAs
- MAX® series CPLDs
- Arria® GX series FPGAs
- APEX™ series FPGAs
- ACEX® 1K FPGAs
- Mercury™ FPGAs
- FLEX 10K® series FPGAs
- Excalibur™ FPGAs

Allows in-system programming of the following devices:

Altera configuration devices including EPC2 devices
Enhanced configuration devices including EPC4, EPC8, and EPC16 devices
Serial configuration devices including EPCS1, EPCS4, EPCS16, EPCS64, and EPCS128 devices
In addition, you can perform SignalTap® II logic analysis
The USB-Blaster download cable supports target systems using 5.0V TTL, 3.3V LVTTL/LVCMOS, and single-ended I/O standards from 1.5V to 3.3V

Power Requirements

The USB-Blaster download cable requires the following power sources:

5.0V from the USB cable
Between 1.5V and 5.0 V from the target circuit board

Software Requirements

The USB-Blaster download cable is only available for Windows 2000, Windows XP (32-bit and 64-bit), Windows Vista (32-bit and 64-bit), UNIX, and all Linux platforms such as Red Hat Enterprise 4, Red Hat Enterprise 5, CentOS 4/5, and SUSE Linux Enterprise 9.