[Coco] DE-1 Clarification Please

[Dave Philipsen]

It’s *definitely* a problem with the control panel software.  The DE1 board itself is not to blame.

Dave

> On Oct 29, 2017, at 7:23 AM, Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> 
>> On 29/10/2017 9:30 AM, James Ross wrote:
>> 
>> It should not be the fact that one must program their device multiple
>> times before it takes (not saying that you are implying that either).
>> Just saying, that there has got to be a precise explanation of what
>> folks are doing wrong and why that does not work when they do that.
> 
> Given the manual, multi-step, nature of the programming process, and the variances across PC hardware and driver versions, odds are the issues can be traced back to a fault on the PC side of the cable, rather than the DE1 itself.
> 
> For the record, I've used the DE1 for years on a number of projects, mostly non-Coco-related and haven't had a systemic issue that I can recall with programming the flash via the Control Panel.
> 
> Not to say that I haven't been simply lucky and that the TerASIC-supplied software isn't temperamental.
> 
> Regards,
> 
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