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13 years ago

Stratix V GX Development Card: Board Test System cannot detect USB Blaster

We have a Stratix V development card (5SGXEA7K2F40C2N) and cannot get the development kit GUI (Board Test System) to detect the USB Blaster. The USB blaster interface is recognized through Quartus (able to program), and is visible using jtagconfig, but Board Test System cannot detect the USB interface. The board is behaving as expected and does not appear to have any issues. LED lights are as expected, LAN interface and LCD screen is as expected. I have double checked all DIP switches and they match factory settings from the development kit guide. The exact error message is as follows:

Connecting to the target...

java.lang.Exception: No USB Blaster detected.

Please check connections and restart the program.

I checked some of the threads, and they recommended trying different versions of the USB blaster drivers. I have tried 12.1, 11.1sp1, 12.0sp2 versions, but none have worked.

Thanks for your help.

Gene

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    12 years ago

    I have the same problem as

    java.lang.Exception: Could not find device 0x029030DD

    This problem could be caused by an older version of Quartus. Please ensure Quartus 9.0 is installed.

    it seems that BTS has to be run at Quatus 12.0. Why altera didn't update the BTS for the new version Quatus?........
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    10 years ago

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    RESOLVED!

    The latest Stratix V development kit installer is v12.0.0.1. I found this worked with QII v12.0 (no service packs - although I didn't try any either).

    Here are the modified steps:

    jtagserver --status needs to show that the jtagserver is being launched from the 12.0 folder

    QUARTUS_ROOTDIR environment variable needs to point to either c:\altera\12.0\quartus or c:\altera\12.0\qprogrammer (where qprogrammer is the folder used if you downloaded only the QII programmer and not the full installation)

    I tried multiple versions of the Quartus II programmer (12.0 and 13.0) and they both configured the FPGA properly.

    When I launched the BTS, the USB Blaster error disappeared and I was able to successfully load any of the configurations from the menu.

    Hope this works for you too.

    -Terry

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    Hi Terry,

    Thanks a lot , it worked for me too

    My setup was a Stratix V GS DSP Kit

    My quartus ii tool is version 14.1

    So came across this error since the Board Test System version i used is 11.1.2 . It was driving me crazy for last two days. Tried many things, all in vain.

    As per your suggestion i installed the quartus programmer v.12.0sp2 alone, without quartus ii 12 full installation.

    Changed the quartus_rootdir environment variable

    Now i am able to detect board and run all demos.

    Thanks alot
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    10 years ago

    you can check in the dev kit webpage as well. it is stated there what version of the installer and you need to match with the Quartus version to launch the BTS. seems like BTS has a direct path to the Quartus library of a specific version.

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    7 years ago

    I got a number of new chip 5SGXEA7K2F40C2N

    Can anyone give me details of this chip?