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15 years ago

Connecting my FPGA to PC

Hi, I've just received my FPGA board (It's an Altera Baixun, EP1C6T144C8N) and I can't manage to get Quartus to detect it (when I go in Add hardware..., there is only two options: ByteBlaster a...
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15 years ago

I guess, you didn't read the user's manual thoroughly. Quartus doesn't connect to the board through serial interfaces, it uses JTAG interface exclusively for configuration and test. Some boards have an on-board USB-Blaster with an USB connector, but I guess, the said board hasn't. You have to use USB Blaster, Byte Blaster or Ethernet Blaster to connect to the board.