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13 years ago

Compiling NIOS 3.2 / Quartus 4.2 in Win8

Hello all, We have a legacy system which still uses the Quartus 4.2 and NIOS 3.2 compiler / SOPC builder to compile the firmware. We have no option to upgrade as we are still using the old APEX...
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13 years ago

Don't bother trying to install old tools in new operating systems. Its not worth your frustration. Install VirtualBox on your Windows 8 machine, and then install Windows XP in VirtualBox followed by Quartus 4.2.

If you are lucky, Windows 8 will allow the USB-Blaster to be captured by the Virtual Machine. Windows 7 would not allow this (at least for my tests). Windows XP and Linux hosts worked ok.

If you store the Virtual Machines on a USB hard-drive, then you can boot the VMs on any machine you like (use the "Machine->Add" menu option in Virtual Box, and then remove it when you are done).

Cheers,

Dave