Friday, August 30, 2013

Assembly almost complete


I loaded most of the remaining components today including all decoupling & bulk caps, the switching power supplies, and all four LDOs.



  Power-on tests proved that all voltage rails are correct.  After bypassing the USB/CPLD programming circuit I was able to detect the FPGA using Quartus via JTAG!  That means the board is working perfectly (so far).


Next I'm going to try to bring up the USB/CPLD programming logic.  Two interesting projects exist online: OpenJTAG and the ixo.de USB JTAG pod project.  ixo.de's usb_jtag project looks like the simplest path.  I will most likely start there and see if it works.  



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