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11 years ago

Alternative to DE1 control panel?

As a lot of users here I have problems with the DE1 control panel. It exits with the error message "Please make sure Quartus is installed". The DE1 manual states that it has to be Quartus 12.0 or new...
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11 years ago

You can use the Quartus programmer to write the external flash. IIRC there is an example in the DE1 board manual. If you either have a NIOS with debug enabled, or a jtag master bridge in your system you can use system console to write SRAM if you have a connection defined. You can search for system console examples to find more details.

In some cases the DE1 control panel is failing because it doesn't have the version of the visual studio runtime library that it is looking for installed. No guarantee that is what's causing your problem...