Altium's USB JTAG Adapter allows you to fully experience the benefits of LiveDesign and interact live with your chosen development board via Altium Designer.
Connecting to third-party boards
Connecting your board
Using Altium Designer with a Third-Party Board
Cable Pinouts
Altium also provides information on, and support for, an extensive range of third-party development boards. This support can include specific instructions for connecting the board (including images), constraint files and example projects that demonstrate the use of processor cores and virtual instruments.
View list of third-party boards
Please also check Supported Vendor Devices in Altium Designer to ensure the full support on your device by USB JTAG Adapter. If the device is not on the list, the support may be limited to the Live Update of pin state of the device.
Connecting to a NanoBoard
The USB JTAG Adapter is required when updating the NanoBoard firmware on a Desktop NanoBoard NB2DSK01, via the dedicated 'SYSTEM JTAG' header.
Updating the Firmware on the Desktop NanoBoard NB2DSK01
The Adapter can also be used to create a JTAG link from your PC to a NanoBoard-NB1 – which posesses a parallel port header only – using a USB connection.
Connecting the Altium USB Adapter to a NanoBoard-NB1
Updating the Firmware on the NanoBoard-NB1
More reading
We recommend that you read the below documents that provide information specifically relating to FPGA design, processor cores and embedded software development.
Soft Design
Tutorial - Getting Started with FPGA Design
Tutorial - Getting Started with Embedded Software
Tutorial - Implementing a 32-bit Processor-based Design in an FPGA
