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11 years ago

DE2-115 USB DEVICE Demo not working

Hi all, I just started trying to use the USB port to communicate from the PC to the DE2-115 board. My needs are to transfer info back and forth for the control application running on the FPGA. ...
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11 years ago

After contacting Terasic Support I've found out that there are 2 versions of the DE2-115 board. One of them uses the Philips ISP1362 chip for the USB and the other one uses the Cypress CY7C67200.

As it turns out I was using a newer version of Quartus II and assumed it would be better to download updated drivers from the Terasic website. But the version 3.0.1 is only for the Cypress CYC67200 board. In my case, all new boards the University in bought 2014 came with the Philips ISP1362 chip so the most updated files on the Terasic site are version 1.0.6

Also note that only Cypress seems to have an USB driver for Windows 7 which is the system I'm running. Is mentioned by the Terasic support the Philips ISP1362 only has drivers for Windows XP.

If anyone knows a way to use the Philips ISP1362 chip on Windows 7 and above please let me know.

Thanks.