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16 years ago

Computer does not reconize the FPGA board

I have a problem with my starter board and i hope annyone can help me fix it. I have 2 cyclone 2 FPGA starter board's from Altera. Its the EP2C20N board (it has the EP2C20F484C7N FPGA) ...
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16 years ago

there are no jumpers on the board. and the whole board is protected by a plastic that is mounted above it. so you cant touch or dammage anny chips easy

there are 10 switches and 4 buttons on it. but those are for user aplications.

there is 1 switch that can be put in RUN or PROG, and a power button.

But even with the power off the computer should see the USB Blaster (thats what it does with the working board) and not a "USB <-> Serial" device.

here's a picture of the board:

http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/altera/images/fig1-cyclone2-staterkit.jpg

Also id like to add that both starter board's are new.