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Spoder
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1 year ago

Quartus II Lite edition is not recognizing Cyclone IV EP4CE6 board

Quartus isn't showing any devices in Hardware setup. I know the computer knows it's connected because it shows up in Settings and Device Manager, I've also uninstalled and reinstalled the USB Blaster...
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NurAiman_M_Intel
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11 months ago

Hi,


Any update for this?


Regards,

Aiman


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Spoder
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11 months ago

Hello,

It seems like I am indeed using a clone USB Blaster (sorry for that, the kit I bought was the most affordable I could buy as a student). As for any solution. I couldn't find any way to use old drivers (for starters, I had to use a modified USB Blaster driver for ARM Windows) and Quartus was never able to recognize my board, in fact, by that point I wasn't even sure if Windows itself was really recognizing the board or if it just knew there was a USB Blaster connected.

I completely bypassed Quartus by using OpenOCD on macOS, which recognized the board on the first try, to upload a .svf version of the program into the board.