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14 years ago

altera 11 usbblaster ubuntu 11.04

Hello all, I am running into the dreaded ubuntu usbblaster issue. I am on ubuntu 11.04 32 bits with Altera 11 (which is supposed to be better). I got this to work using altera 10 with earlier u...
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14 years ago

OK, found the solution (on the wiki)!

$ sudo mkdir /etc/jtagd

$ sudo cp /home/hill/altera/11.0/quartus/linux/pgm_parts.txt /etc/jtagd/jtagd.pgm_parts

$ ls /etc/jtagd

jtagd.pgm_parts

$ jtagconfig

1) USB-Blaster [2-4]

020F30DD

$ killall jtagd

$ jtagd

$ jtagconfig

1) USB-Blaster [2-4]

020F30DD EP3C25/EP4CE22

$ nios2-download hello_world.elf

Using cable "USB-Blaster [2-4]", device 1, instance 0x00

Pausing target processor: OK

Initializing CPU cache (if present)

OK

Downloaded 49KB in 2.7s (18.1KB/s)

Verified OK

Leaving target processor paused

success!