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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

USB Blaster driver for Max+plus II

I am using MAX+PLUS II trying to program EPM7128STC100-15. I have a USB Blaster download cable. I can not install the driver. The instruction on Altera website does not apply because it's for Quar...
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FvM
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1 year ago
Hi,
as mentioned above, it's unlikely that you can use MasterBlaster over USB with recent Windows versions because there's no driver for it. Use UART.
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Eagle_Savy
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1 year ago

Hi Gents,

Thanks a million for helping me along with this.

So, the advice from you would be to use this newly purchased Blaster with an old PC running WIN2K or WINXP the latest, or would there be another possibility?

@FvM : reading through the materials you kindly attached the link to in your previous response about the USB2LPT Conversion, I did not see any of the Altera listed in amongst the "Chip Programmers" tested. Would this be something I can consider using?

KR

Savvy_Eagle