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Review on πŸ”Œ Enhanced USB Blaster: High-Speed Stability for CPLD FPGA Programming by Herthoel Yanda

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Don't buy this

I plugged this into my laptop and it wasn't recognized as a new USB device. After trying multiple USB ports and a PC, I finally found that the USB cable was damaged; not broken, its contacts are burnt out so I can say this is a used cable. I then used a new cable and this time my laptop recognized a new device but no drivers. I had to try three times to install them manually; eventually it appeared as a working device. First attempt by programmer Quartus, BSOD on Windows 10, second attempt the same. I uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers and Quartus magically found the hardware for the third time without the BSOD. Autodetect hangs, so I did a JTAG debug, after a while it becomes unresponsive to a new BSOD. So, I couldn't get this to work.

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