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Honored ContributorCyclone II Windows 7 x64 USB Serial Bus
I've been working on this problem for a few days and would really appreciate some assistance.
I have the Cyclone II FPGA Starter Board and am using the Windows 7 Home x64 operating system, and Quartus II 7.2. I have the VHDL written and want to send the program to the board, however the 'start' button isn't lit up in the programmer window. I did add the program to the list. I also attempted the CII_Starter_USB_API program in the demonstrations directory. When attempting to use the CII_Starter_Control_panel.exe program, when opening the USB port 0, the light comes on the board indicating the connection is there, but the demonstration lights continue on the board, and any changes made with the control panel are not evident on the board. I did ensure that I closed the control panel before attempting to program. The driver in the device manager on the Windows 7 x64 operating system reflects that it is being controlled by "USB Serial Bus Converter". While reading through the documentation, it mentions USB-Blaster driver is used. I did download the USB Blaster drivers from the altera FTP site and attempted to use them, but windows 7 would not recognize them, even after completely removing the USB Serial Bus Controller driver from the system. After this attempt I did allow windows to re-download and install the USB Serial Bus Controller. I got the USB Blaster drivers from this post: <altera site> /support/kdb/solutions/rd06212010_676.html When I use the 'Hardware Setup' button in the programmer and click 'Add Hardware', I am given the options of ByteBlasterMV or Byte Blaster II, or Ethernet Blaster, neither which work correctly. Yes, the switch is set to 'run' and the Mode in the programmer is set to JTAG. Please guide me through the process to which I can reach the goal of getting my ( *.sof) file into my board. *Edit - I didn't mention this but I did download the 10.1 programmer from the FTP site also to same effect. Further notes and observations... when using the CII Starter Kit Control Panel - Tools Tab - Board Test, The LED Test, 7 SEG Test, and LCD Test all come back OK, but SDRAM, SRAM, and FLASH Tests fail (FLASH erase timeout) . All three pulldowns above are set to host. (no asynchronous) While the tests are going on, the blue Load LED blinks as data is being transfered, and the whole time, the board LEDS and 7-segment display continue their testing powerup pattern.
