Month: September 2019

USBasp driver for Windows 10

On 2019-09-13

In the past I used USBtiny and USBasp programmers to flash Atmel microcontrollers. Under Windows 10 the programmers did not work, even though Windows 10 seemed to detect them correctly.
It turns out Windows 10 does not use/fetch the correct drivers.
To make things work again most folk use Zadig a tool which automatically installs some legacy drivers typically used for USB programmer dongles.

After the drivers are installed Windows 10 finally detects my USBasp programmer dongle as it should.

References:
[1] https://rayshobby.net/dead-simple-driver-installation-for-usbasp-and-usbtiny-on-windows/
[2] https://zadig.akeo.ie

Anlogic TANG PriMER dev board

By andrsmllr

On 2019-09-01

In 101, electronics, fpga, risc-v, software, tutorial/howto, verilog, vhdl

Recently I purchased a Sipeed TANG PriMER development board featuring an Anlogic EG4S20 FPGA (codenamed Eagle S20). The only reason I bought the board was to see what Anlogic FPGAs are capable of, since I had never heard of that FPGA vendor before. No need to think twice when the board costs less than 20$.