Using an external MCU as a crude clock source for the Altera CPLD. (Credit: [Doug Brown]) One exciting feature of hardware development involving MCUs and FPGAs is that you all too often need specific ...
The last time we checked in with [Downtown Doug Brown], he had some cheap Altera USB Blaster clones that didn’t want to work under Linux. The trick at that time was to change the device’s 24 MHz clock ...