Altera Cyclone IV FPGA rzrd

Altera Cyclone IV FPGA, rzrd.net board kit

RZ-EasyFPGA A2.2

 

https://www.banggood.com/ALTERA-Cyclone-IV-EP4CE6-FPGA-Development-Board-Kit-Altera-EP4CE-NIOSII-FPGA-Board-and-USB-Downloader-Infrared-Controller-p-1622523.html

The kit comes with;

1 x Mainboard
1 x USB Downloader (the usb downloader was broken)
1 x Remote Controller
1 x USB Cable

Altera Cyclone IV FPGA, rzrd.net main board features:

1. the main chip of ALTERA company’s new FPGA Cyclone IV series EP4CE6E22C8N
2. Onboard high-capacity EPCS16N serial configuration chip, supports JTAG/AS two download mode
3. Onboard 64Mbit SDRAM, support SOPC, NIOSII development
4. Onboard 50MHz active crystal, the master clock system stability
5. Using 1117-3.3V voltage regulator chip, to provide 3.3V voltage output
6. Using 1117-1.2V voltage regulator chip to provide FPGA core voltage
7. Using 1117-2.5V voltage regulator chip, to provide PLL voltage output
8. Using a large number of decoupling capacitors, decoupling design
9. 5V DC power supply socket and USB interface power supply socket, two kinds of power supply mode
10. 1 reset button, can also be used as a user input button
11. 1 self locking button power switch
12. 1 LED power indicator light
13. Out of all IO interface, universal 2.54mm spacing, can be easily extended
14. JTAG download interface to download the file is .SOF, the speed is fast, the usual use of this interface is recommended
15. AS download interface to download the file is .POF, the speed is slow, need to use this interface when the curing process

Peripheral Interface:

1. 4 independent keys
2. 4 LED diodes,
3. 4 digital tube
4. 4 dial switch
5. 1 buzzer
6. PS2 interface
7. RS232 serial port
8. 1*20 pin LCD socket, support LCD1602, LCD12864, TFT LCD
9. Temperature sensor chip LM754A, for thermometer experiment
10. Precision adjustable resistance, adjustable LCD backlight
11. VGA interface, for display experiment
12. I2C serial EEPROMAT24C08, for IIC bus experiment
13. Infrared receiving module

Links

https://gojimmypi.blogspot.com/2018/02/first-fpga-test-drive-with-altera.html

https://gist.github.com/peach-e/691a0b54b535d70313c97e0af6002aaa

https://github.com/jvitkauskas/Altera-Cyclone-IV-board-V3.0

http://fpga.redliquid.pl/

Files from fpga.redliquid

 

Bad USB Blaster based on cypress chip (CY7C68013A)

My kit comes with a bad USB Blaster, it shows as USBee ax pro, and it is not recognized

Video done on linux

Video done in windows

Original lsusb output, for the device that is not recognized by quartus prime

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 08a9:0014 CWAV Inc. USBee AX-Pro

USBee ax pro reprogram procedure to USB Blaster that worked

 

Extra use for the device

Changing vid and pid to act like a Saleae Logic analizer, and use his software

https://gronlier.fr/blog/2014/07/usbee-ax-pro-reprogramming/

 

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Intel_Quartus_Prime

https://ecen3350.rocks/static/usb-blaster.pdf