It is faster about 6 times than ByteblasterII and with the USB interface, so you do not need PC with the serial port. When you use it to debug your Black Gold, it will not Pop-up warning. Description This programmer Supports 1.5V,1.8V,2.5V,3.5V and 5.0V as well as all ALTERA products like CPLD ( MAX3000, MAX7000, MAX9000 and MAX II ) FPGA ( Stratix, StratixII, Cyclone, CycloneII, ACEX 1K, APEX20K and FLEX 10K ), Cyclone (EP1C3, EP1C6, EP1C12, EP1C20) Cyclone II (EP2C5, EP2C8, EP2C35) Stratix (EP1S10, EP1S20, EP1S25) Stratix II(EP2S60) FLEX10K(EPF10K10, EPF0K30) ACEX1K(EP1K30) MAX7000(MAX7128SLC84, MAX7128) AETC100(MAX3000, MAX3128) MAXII(MAXII240, MAXII570, MAXII1270) EPCS(EPCS1, EPCS4, EPCS16) EPC(EPC1, EPC4) Active serial configuration device (EPCS1, EPCS4, EPCS16) The device is tested with the different program mode like JTAG ( Cyclone, CycloneII, Stratix II, Flex10K, Acex1K, Max7000, and Max3000) AS ( EPCS1, EPCS4, EPCS16) PS (Stratix, Stratix GX ) ALTERA USB Blaster Support AS, PS, and JTAG program ( with Verify and BankCheck function), Support embedded logic analyzer function of SignalTapII and NIOS II communication and debugger.

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