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20 years ago

About Nios II Eval Kit of Altera

I bought Altera Nios 2 Evaluation Kit, but it does not communicate to PC thru USB-cable. Every time I connect it to PC, it said that USB driver needs to be installed and then I did that. Unfortunatel...
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20 years ago

Type "jtagconfig" from an SDK shell prompt and pay attention to the output. If you get nothing (or an error), you've got a Windows driver issue. If, however, you get some sensible, like: 

$ jtagconfig
1) USB-Blaster 
  020030DD   EP1S25/_HARDCOPY_FPGA_PROTOTYPE

then look to see if there's more than one device connected.

Cheers,

- slacker