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12 years ago

USB Blaster driver issue

I've been going through the forums and I have been unable to find an answer to my exact USB Blaster Driver issue. I have installed the free version of Quartus 13.1 and I now trying to use the USB Bl...
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12 years ago

I've successfully run FT_PROG on Windows 7 64-bit. Re-read the installation instructions, you must have missed a step, eg., perhaps reboot the machine?

The output of USBview matches an FTDI FT245B with a blank EEPROM. Once you've got FT_PROG working, program the EEPROM, unplug and plug the USB-Blaster back in, it will enumerate correctly as a USB-Blaster.

Cheers,

Dave