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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, ...
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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.