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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

Can't find USB blaster in programmer (DE1)

Hi, I just bought the DE1 board, and I'm totally lost... I try to program it with one of the demonstration I got with my cd, but in the 'Add Hardware' in the programmer I can find only MaterBlas...
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16 years ago

Altera USB-Blaster driver cannot be installed on Vista 64. On 64-bit Vista all drivers must be digitally signed. Unfortunately, Altera did not sign the driver, moreover, it broke the original FTDI signature (USB-Blaster driver is just a renamed ftd2xx driver from FTDI Ltd).