Re: Carte Blanche arrives!

[mdj <mdj.mdj@gmail.com>]

On Sep 30, 6:45 am, Alex Freed <alex_n...@mirrow.com> wrote:
> Steven Hirsch wrote:
>
> > Ok, that looks like a 10-pin IDC male-to-female cable.  The parts for
> > that are sitting in my bin at the moment, so I won't have to spend the
> > $$$'s.
>
> It may *look* that way but there is a caveat: it is 2 mm pitch rather
> than the more standard 0.1".
>
> In order to connect to the CB I use a "flyleads"  cable. You can get a
> genuine Xilinx one but it is expensive for no good reason - $25

I thought the flylead cable that ships with the CB could be used to
interface to the Xilinx dongle, or is the pin pitch too tight ?

<rant>

I'd rather pay them $100 bucks or so for a WebPack license and not
have to worry about these unnecessarily proprietary tools. Those eBay
auctions were timely though - hope everyone has one now!

</rant>

Matt