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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

DE3 Control Panel not connecting

Hi, today we received some new DE3 boards. I played around a bit with the supplied application "DE3 Control Panel", but when I click on the connect button a message appears after some seconds w...
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17 years ago

I could workaround the problem. Seems that the Control Panel has difficulties finding the programmer or Quartus installation. The solution in my case is to first program the board with the file DE3_ControlPanel_150.sof (residing in the control panel software folder) through Quartus and then open the Control Panel software itself.