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CWP
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4 years ago

Max 10 FPGA Dev Kit JTAG issues

Hi, I was setting up a newly bought Max 10 Development Kit and installed Quartus Prime Lite Ver 20 on Windows 7 pc. I connect the kit's J12 via the USB cable provided to PC and upon power up the kit, the driver for the USB-BlasterII starts to install and shows no problem. A error message pop up when I ran the Board System Test (BTS) exe, stating "No JTAG cable is detected or selected" (see attach pic below). I then ran Quartus Prime's JTAG Chain Debugger and shows "TCK and TMS connection issue" (see attach pic below). Can I confirm there is an issue with the kit? or is there other setup I need to perform?

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  • sstrell's avatar
    sstrell
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    4 years ago

    Open the Quartus Programmer and see if the device is detected there.

    I'm not sure if that recent version of Quartus will work OK with Windows 7.

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    CWP
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    4 years ago

    Hi sstrell, thanks for the reply.

    Using Programmer, I had to select "USB-BlasterII" at Hardware Setting and after that, clicking "Auto Detect" a message pop out "Unable to scan device chain. Can't scan JTAG chain. Do you want to open the JTAG Chain Debugger to troubleshoot the JTAG chain?" (see attached pic) I tried using the Debugger and it shows "Error: The TCK and TMS connections...might have problem" (see attached pic)

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    NurAiman_M_Intel
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    4 years ago

    We do not receive any response from you to the previous answer that I have provided. This thread will be transitioned to community support. If you have a new question, feel free to open a new thread to get the support from Intel experts. Otherwise, the community users will continue to help you on this thread. Thank you


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      CWP
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      4 years ago

      Issue resolved. It was the Microtronix's HSMC daughter board causing the JTAG chain issue. After removing this board, JTAG issue solved. Thanks for the support.