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3LionsCT
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1 month ago

USB Blaster not available

Hi, The USB blaster programs my Max 10 device fine until I plug in another usb cable that controls  a Rabbit micro-controller (FTI device) I am interfacing to the MAX10 device. When this happens I g...
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FvM
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1 month ago

Hi,

my previous reply you are referring to is fortunately disappeared from the forum, don't understand why.

The problem was discussed in several previous threads, I think latest here: USB Blaster is recnized on wondows but not on Quartus | Altera Community

I reported that I'm using other Quartus compatible programming adapters like USB Blaster II (Cypress USB interface), USB Blaster III or Arrow USB Programming Adapter II (both FT2232H based). USB Blaster II is quite expensive and not continued due to Cypress chip EOL. It's built-in to to some Eval boards.

It was also reported in previous posts that the problem should be fixed by newer FTDI drivers, but I can't verify right now.

Regards Frank