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16 years ago

USB Blaster inaccessible

I've just restarted using Quartus after a long (maybe 2 years?) break. I've updated to web edition 9.1sp1. So all my existing projects needed to be converted. I'm now trying to program using a USB Bl...
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16 years ago

Did you had a look into the device manager ?

when the USB Blaster is connected via USB, it should appear as "Altera USB-Blaster" and does not require to be connected to a target via the 10 pin JTAG connector.

also the USB Blaster drivers can be found here

C:\altera\91\quartus\drivers

please note that 91 is the version you are currently using and could be 91SP1 in your case

also you can use the driver from FTDI as well.

i had posted these links a couple of days ago in another thread.