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12 years ago

Altera USB-Blaster II Design

Hello, I was given instructions on building my own USB Blaster II from altera. They gave me the required drivers, a program to program the CPLD, as well as a .pof file they created to program the ...
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12 years ago

hey so new issue for you, turns out that altera gave me the wrong .pof file (meant for a board based off of a different schematic) and they corrected the problem. i now have the right .pof and am able to program my byte blaster and get it recognized by the quartus programmer. yet when I try to use it to connect to another board, I hit auto detect and get the error “unable to scan device chain. On-board programming hardware is disabled. Any ideas?

-ryan