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15 years ago

USB blaster windows 7 32bit DE1 board

Hi all, I recently bought the de1 fpga board. I installed the Cd containing quatus 7.2 web edition, and connected the board. the first thing that shows up is that windows installed it as usb-s...
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15 years ago

Unfortunately, the observation about the USB Blaster enumerated as USB-serial (default FTDI type is recognized with blank or invalid EEPROM) was somewhat hidden in your post, so I overlooked it. This is in fact a well known issue that comes up occasionally. It has been discussed several times at Altera forum.

Good that you found the solution.