Hey folks

I have an Elektor FPGA project board (with an Altera EP1C12k and a
EPCS4).

My board is working nicely, but I'm having an issue with Quartus,
where I can't program the serial eeprom using the active serial mode.

Quartus objects to this on the grounds that "Current programming
hardware does not support Active Serial Programming programming mode".

I set up the Quartus programming tool to upload the .pof file, and it
got the right serial eeprom from the file. Everything goes just fine
until I hit the "Start" button, when the above error pops up.

Any idea what gives? I've tried resetting the parallel port in the
BIOS (Classic, ECP and Bidirectional modes). I've installed the
ByteBlaster driver, and Quartus thinks I have a ByteBlasterMV, not a
ByteBlasterII. Is this relevant?

I had exactly the same error with Quartus 5.1sp2 and 6.0.

M

you need ByteBlaster II that supports the AS mode,
i think I was the first who made the hardware changes public to convert
and ByteBlaster to BB 2 but I dont have the reference any more

its fairly simple change though

Antti

On 21 May 2006 04:54:42 -0700, "Antti" <Antti.Lukats@xilant.com>
wrote:

>you need ByteBlaster II that supports the AS mode,
>i think I was the first who made the hardware changes public to convert
>and ByteBlaster to BB 2 but I dont have the reference any more
>
>its fairly simple change though

I'm not using a real ByteBlaster, its the Elektor equivalent, and it
has got an AS mode. Its circuit is close to the Altera one in their
user guide, and it has the extra feedback bits that the BBII has.

I suspect something to do with the parallel port because I get the
error whether the "ByteBlaster" is connected or not.

FWIW, JTAG mode works just fine.

M

HI
             Anybody have  idea about gate level simulation? i am
working on
AMBH AHB Gate level simulation.when i am runing gates simultion for
ahb some of the signals are showing unknown(xxx), high impence(zzz)
state? then cheked for paritculer drivers for particuler signal(the
signal which gives zz state) also. those are same driving as rtl.no
difference in drivers.  when i ran rtl simulation for ahb its showing
correct results i
mean(data). when comes to gates  its givng such a states. if u have any
idea
pls give me suggestion?
waiting for reply
bye

Thanks in advance















Mark Murray wrote:
> On 21 May 2006 04:54:42 -0700, "Antti" <Antti.Lukats@xilant.com>
> wrote:
>
> >you need ByteBlaster II that supports the AS mode,
> >i think I was the first who made the hardware changes public to convert
> >and ByteBlaster to BB 2 but I dont have the reference any more
> >
> >its fairly simple change though
>
> I'm not using a real ByteBlaster, its the Elektor equivalent, and it
> has got an AS mode. Its circuit is close to the Altera one in their
> user guide, and it has the extra feedback bits that the BBII has.
>
> I suspect something to do with the parallel port because I get the
> error whether the "ByteBlaster" is connected or not.
> 
> FWIW, JTAG mode works just fine.
> 
> M