Conclusion: 1. The chip on the back of the PCB is "Actel" or little black glue circle. This is very important.
2. The chip on another side of PCB is a 48 pins chip of "SST". Some batches of AK2 used other banners of 48 pins chips. But they're all 48 pins.
3. Please refer to the 2 items above as the main symbol of real AK2 and AK2i because the package of retail had changed many times.
That's from team acekard. So yeah never used the XLINX chip ever.
QUOTEi asked to have this thread stickied because of a recent influx of clone acekards. as you all know the r4i, r4 ultra, and a few others are acekard 2 hardware clones. what you might not know is that someone is putting legit acekard 2i stickers on these kits and reselling them. more than a few people have reported having these kits. right now a great way to tell if you have a clone is to run akaio 1.4.1 on your kit. the 1.4.1 firmware has an anti-clone routine which will block its execution on clones with an "unsupported device" error.
if you see this try the following:
run akaio 1.3
run the official firmware
if both work and akaio 1.4.1 does not, open your kit and take pictures after you verify that it is a clone.
take pictures of the "legit" ak2i sticker as well and any included boxes or packaging
submit those pictures (in an e-mail resolution/size) to
[email protected]
include where you purchased the kit, who you bought it from, the web site, the e-mail address, etc.
