After seeing circuit details I discovered it used some pic18F2550 as was almost compatible with dangerousprotypes IR Infrared Toy (also they used same xtal frequency), so I downloaded firmware and programmed succesfully this device easily without modifiying firmware source code.
Quartus software recognised it as a USB Blaster JTAG programmer natively, but they also provide an USB Blaster Unofficial driver which let them to use a custom JED Programmer software (but it's incompatible with Quartus, so you have to choose)
They demostrate a Lattice CPLD but I only have Xilinx CPLD (XC9572) so I'm still giving a try to that jtag application, but it seems promising.
Also I have see other site that claim it could be compatible with OpenOCD.
More information on those sites: japanise site 1 and japanise site 2 (use google translator or similar for reading somenthing). Google also "18picblaster".
According to that site, you have to download:
- Firmware and sources for 18F2550 (japanise site 1)
- Firmware and sources for 18F2550 and openocd patch (japanise site 2)
- XP JED Programmer v0.53 and Modified usb blaster driver for Windows (japanese site 1)
- XP JED Programmer v0.54 (for Lattice CPLD's at least) (japanese site 1)
Enjoy!
Nice project! Before I try this circuit I have some questions: Can it be used for programming low voltage devices ( 3.3V, 2.5V)? And have you managed to try the programmer with Xilinx CPLD?
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