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13 years ago

Old PCI Development Kit Compatibility

Hi All, I'm working on a project that requires the PCI bus. I currently have a PC with an Altera license (Quartus II, ver. 10.0) that I purchased in 2010. But now that I'm starting on this n...
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13 years ago

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the quick response. In the system I am developing the host PC (SBC) will be running on Windows 7. I plan to use WinDriver (Jungo) to implement the device drivers (the kit itself recommends this product). But I wasn't planning to install the kit software on this SBC because I figured Quartus II 4.0 (2005) was unlikely to be compatible with Windows 7 - and I wasn't thrilled with the idea of using Windows XP mode for development. Rather, I thought I would install this old kit software on a PC that I have running Windows XP, do my embedded system stuff (loading the hardware image, etc) on it and tether it to the kit development board via the USB-Blaster. This is the same PC on which I already have a licensed Quartus II 10.0 installed. Then I would install WinDriver on the host SBC side for the device driver development. The idea is to get some practice working with Altera PCI (not PCIe) before I get the real hardware.

Have you tried installing and running old Quartus II versions on Windows 7?

Thanks again for your response.