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19 years ago

Debugging problem with USB-Blaster

I am having a problem while trying to debug Nios applications using a USB-Blaster. On my own laptop everything works fine. I have bought a new laptop for another engineer that I recently recruited to...
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19 years ago

I received a loan of a ByteBlaster from my friendly local Altera FEA today. The ByteBlaster gives the same symptoms as the USB Blaster: it works well on the older, slower laptop; but on the new laptop it can't debug applications, although it can download and run them.

This observation might imply that the problem is not in the USB Blaster but is something to do with the Quartus or Nios set-up on the new laptop.

I am gathering the parts together to try the suggestion of shortening the USB Blaster cable. The ByteBlaster has a really long ribbon cable.

Mike