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In order to gain the most from this process, you should generate a series of topics you desire to better understand and then post them.
Currently your posting is much to general in nature to give others a feel for where to start helping you.
There are a few posts on getting the USB Blaster to work on that OS I believe.
You might also gogle search a few university sites as there are quite a few that offer on line courses information to help you along.
Altera also offers some very good free online training that can help you with some example work as well.
cheers.
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Thanks for responding - I will start to post topics of interest.
But my worry is whether I need to have a background in electronics to be able to start...
- Clocks - rising/falling edges
- Signals
- LUTs
- Muxs
- Memory Maps
- Controllers
- VHDL
- etc