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11 years ago

Installed hardware does not support device type

I'll be using Master Blaster (USB) download cable to examine/erase a program in cPLD chip P/n: EPM7192EGI160-20. Previously used Quartus II and USB Blaster to program the chip, but Quartus does...
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11 years ago

I think you're on a bit of a hiding to nothing here I'm afraid. You're using an old device only supported by very old versions of Quartus. Add to that the fact that MAX7000E devices don't support ISP JTAG configuration and you're ruling out the use of an USB-Blaster, MasterBlaster, ByteBlaster or BitBlaster I'm afraid.

MAX7000E devices need programming in suitable stand-alone programmer. See the altera programming hardware (http://www.altera.com/literature/ds/dspghd.pdf) datasheet for details. Note that the MAX7000E series is referred to as MAX7000 in this document.

Cheers,

Alex