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ft2232 support in quartus II

Altera_Forum
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Does Quartus II officialy support ft2232 as a fpga programmer?

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Altera_Forum
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No it does not. 

the only support is for the Arrow Bemicro board. when I tried to get the drivers from Altera they refused.
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Altera_Forum
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The programmer costs ~10USD, why bother?

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Altera_Forum
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One might want to enable JTAG connection to the FPGA using a standard USB cable, anytime anywhere without the need for programmer. 

In my case I didn't have enough pins on the board for both USB and JTAG connectors.
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Altera_Forum
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There's a previous thread about the Arrow/FT2232 programmer option. 

http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20490 

 

The driver could be downloaded from arrow (and should be still available there), I don't see a problem to use it at least for personal purposes. The most problematic point is, that's it's considerably slower than USB Blaster particularly in debugging, as reported in the said thread.
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