This lack of USB support was a deal killer for him, so after hunting some more he settled on a clone of the Sparkfun ... squeeze it all inside an old USB dongle housing, stuffing it in dead ...

I ended up also finding the TCL Linkkey IK511 pictured above, and it’s one of the world’s first 5G RedCap USB-C dongles. I’d buy one in a heartbeat, just to ensure I have a backup connection ...

The amazing feature of this USB Blaster clone is that while it works perfectly ... the towel and downclocking the Altera CPLD inside the adapter after finding that it was running a smidge faster ...