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13 years ago

Trouble with getting DE0 board working

Hi there, I am a university student using the altera quartus 2 software as part of our course, we are using the terasic DE0 board aswell.

I have a new laptop running win7 home premium 64bit, i downloaded quartus 2 11.1sp2 (32bit) web edition as this is what we were instucted to do by the university.

I have installed the usb blaster drivers and have the jtag server running but i cannot connect to my DE0 board via the control pannel or the quartus software (no usb blaster selectable in the programing section), i get returned this error "quartus_prm download fail"

Please could some one help me as its making me very behind with the university work.

Many thanks

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    Altera_Forum
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    13 years ago

    Having the exact same problem here. However I can program the DE0 through the Altera Programmer, so I'm thinking this is a specific problem with Terasic's Control Panel which probably hasn't been kept up-to-date with the latest Quartus. I'm considering using a Windows XP virtual machine to work around this issue.

    Regarding the lack of USB Blaster in the Programmer, you need to install the standalone programmer package *after* installing Quartus, then simply install the driver by pointing to C:\altera\12.0sp2\qprogrammer\drivers, it does work on my 64-bit edition of Windows 7.
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    Altera_Forum
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    13 years ago

    Thank you for your reply, i posted it also in another part of the altera forums and some one very kindly told me how to soft it out.