Reverse Engineering of Arrow USB Programmer2 JTAG Adapter for Intel/Altera FPGAs

Reverse Engineering of Arrow USB Programmer2 JTAG Adapter for Intel/Altera FPGAs

연구 분야: Analysis

학회: 2020 9th Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO)

This paper presents an another successful reverse engineering process of Arrow USB Programmer2 JTAG adapter, revealing the identity of all key components. The used attitude is the same as in the case of Digilent JTAG-SMT3-NC adapter which we reversed engineered earlier [1]. We were able to reveal most of the schematic via analysis of publicly available resources such as original high-resolution images and vendor's documentation which gave us enough in-sight. The remaining part of the schematic was obtained by non-invasive test equipment such as multi-meter and microscope. The reconstructed schematic has been verified by designing our own PCB implementing the original Arrow USB Programmer2 function.