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mcmaster_ece
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2 years ago
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Solution: USB Blaster Driver for Windows 11 ARM

Reddit user Space192 and I found a driver solution for the USB Blaster on Windows 11 ARM. It has been tested on Windows 11 ARM Parallels for M1/M2 Macs and also on a Raspberry Pi 4. The solution is t...
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    2 years ago

    The USB Blaster driver attached to my original post should work for Quartus 19.1 through 23.3 on Windows 11 ARM.

    I've attached proven drivers for Quartus 17 through 18, Quartus 13, and Quartus 9. To install a driver without disabling signature enforcement, first add the security certificate to (Local Machine) Trusted Root Certification Authorities as well as (Local Machine) Trusted Publishers.

    If you have a version of Quartus not listed, the ARM driver version with DLL file sizes matching those found in \quartus\drivers\usb-blaster\x64\ should work. If there is no match, replacing the DLL files of any ARM driver version and disabling driver signature enforcement should work.

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2 years ago

Thanks for sharing! This is exactly what I was looking for today. However, the driver cannot be installed.

I added the certificate, and I did check that it was installed in the right places. I get the error message "A certificate chain processed, but terminated in a root certificate which is not trusted by the trust provider."

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    2 years ago

    Try adding the certificate to the Local Machine certificate store locations. I had a problem using the Current User certificate store locations.

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      Ceniza
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      2 years ago

      That's where I installed the certificate and checked for it. I ended up disabling signature enforcement. I still need to actually test it, but it does show up properly when connecting the USB Blaster.

      With signature enforcement disabled I even managed to install it with the latest version of the DLLs. It's just too bad the RNDIS driver for the DE10-nano isn't available for ARM, but it does work through the ethernet port.

      Thanks again for making this information available!

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      2 years ago

      I tried to install the original drivers on a Windows 11 Intel 64 bits, and I did get the same error message. It looks like the problem lies somewhere else. I did have to disable signature enforcement on that machine too in order to install the drivers.

      It was a freshly installed Windows 11, latest version.