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leond95
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5 years ago

quartus (11.1sp2 and 15.1) not detecting de0 nano

Hello everyone,

I have both quartus 11.1sp2 and quartus 15.0, and both can't find my altera boards (de0 nano and 5CG), the usb blaster drivers are installed and windows 10 can detect my boards as you can see in the picture i attached, what can i do to resolve this probleme.

P.s : I uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers but nothing happens, and did the same thing with quartus

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  • ak6dn's avatar
    ak6dn
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    5 years ago

    You didn't post any picture.

    What do you mean by "quartus can't find my altera boards"?

    Are you using the device programmer tool and having it scan jtag for known devices?

    Or what?

    Are those boards known to be working?

    • leond95's avatar
      leond95
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      5 years ago

      yes, when I use the programmer tool, and click on hardware setup, I don't find usb blaster, that happened on both version of quartus

      • ak6dn's avatar
        ak6dn
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        5 years ago

        Did you click on 'Add Hardware' over on the right hand side in the Quartus Programmer?

        You need to do that the first time, then Quartus will remember you have that device.

  • Deshi_Intel's avatar
    Deshi_Intel
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    5 years ago

    Hi,


    ak6dn made some good debug point here. Just to top up few comment here.


    1. Potential Quartus USB blaster driver and OS compatibility issue
    • Based on your screen shot so far, USB blaster driver installation looks good
      • One thing to take note is Quartus version and OS compatibility issue. Win10 is not meant to be used with older Quartus version. You are using very old Quartus version which is developed using Win7 where Win10 may not exist at that time
      • You can try following
      • Use Win10 + latest Quartus standard edition (v19.1 and its USB driver
      • Or use Win 7 + old Quartus v11.1 or v15 and its USB driver
    1. Cyclone IV device database issue
    • Did you install Cyclone IV device database file so that it's able to detect Cyclone IV FPGA on De-0 board ?
    1. de-0 nano board issue


    FYI... De-0 Nano is not board developed by Intel.


    You can check with Terasic on consultation with their board issue via Terasic technical support email : support@terasic.com


    Thanks.


    Reagrds,

    dlim