NOTE : sarosh n. fatakia - june 24th 2002.

steps to program the LTB and LRB 
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use the vme crate for mounting the LTBs, LRBs and 
use slepton.bu.edu for programming the altera software.

do not use the jtag option [FLEX]

01-connect LTBs and, or LRB on the mother board(s).

02-connect the LVDS cable from the altera dongle on to the fpga 
   programming connectors.
   green line pin (on the LVDS) will go to the red line pin (pin#1)
   of the dongle. the green line will go to pin#1 of the fpga 
   connector. 
   for the recent LTBs and LRBs, (ie R40 and T40 onwards)
   programming pins 1->2, 2->1, 3->4, 4->3 etc.
   ie neighbouring pins have swapped. Use the special connector
   to accomodate this feature.


   the next few instructions (03-10) will be common to LTB and LRB.
   for generality let us only consider the LTB.


03-goto 
   http://budoe.bu.edu/~sfatakia/firmware_ltb.html choose the 
   firmware revision# you want- eg #23.
   save the Ltb_v2_23.zip in the directory you want 
   eg d:\users\yourusername\...\ltb_test\ltb_v2_23\
   unzip the file and it gives an option that the extracted 
   version will be called V2_23 - choose that.
   you will have the programming files in 
   d:\users\yourusername\...\ltb_test\ltb_v2_23\V2_23

04-open MAX+plusII 10.0

05-[File]->[Project]->[Name] choose the directory correctly, using Drives
   as well as directories menu, then->name it as "ltbv3" ie the project.
   [ok]-

06-[MAX+plusII]->[Programmer] - wait for a moment

07-[File]->[select programming file]->click [ltbv3.pof]->[ok]

08-if jtag flag is on - it will ask 
   Multi-device FLEX chain mode, which disables the functions of this dialog
   box, is on. Do you want to switch to the single-device mode.
   say [Yes]
   
09-from 06 the window is active. click on [Program] -

10-wait and watch the program work!