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AustinTatious
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3 years ago

Altera 10.1 not working on Windows 10 system

We were using Altera software Version 10.1 which featured a suite of DLL's that make up the hardware abstraction layer of our test fixture. The software was behaving properly on our Windows 7 system;...
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AustinTatious
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3 years ago

We have a copy of the Altera software version 10.1 on our network drives to ensure we could download the correct version when needed. I'm not sure where to redownload it. I found a site that claims to have versions 10.1, 14.0, 15.1, and 16.0 at the link below but I'm not 100% sure it is the same as what I have.

https://modelsim-altera-starter-edition.software.informer.com/10.1/

I have been able to get a bit more information though. FS2 was a 3rd party company that created an external debugger which was used to debug older versions of the Altera software. Newer versions of the Altera software use the USB Blaster to connect to the chip. We believe that the new dll we should be using is the usbblstr32.dll but I'm having a tough time finding documentation for it.

The old DLL (fs2nios.dll) had a function name called "_MDIConnect@12" which when called had 4 outputs:

1. MDIConnect

2. MDIVersion

3. MDIHandle

4. MDIConfigT

Whenever we call the dll we get an error from the MDIConnect output which states that it can not connect to the chip; however, the output from MDIConfigT looks correct (as far as I can tell).

If there is any documentation on the usbblstr32.dll I could replace calls to the old dll with the new one to fix my problem. Let me know if I can provide any further information.