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Arno-NL
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4 years ago
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Altera USB Blaster problems, findings and sources.

Hello community! This is my first time posting here on Intel forums. So I will introduce shortly my affiliation with the Quartus software: I've started to use Quartus when it was still Altera, ba...
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    Arno-NL
    4 years ago

    Hello Aqid,

    I have checked out the links you provided. They were helpful up to a point in that the problem is a bit more defined now: expired certificates. It is likely that if I install Quartus 21 with the patch that the driver will work. I've noted that version 21 no longer has MultiSim, at least not by that name, so I stuck to 20.1.1.

    I do have more useful information though. And that is that I had installed Quartus 13.1 once more, to be exact, version 13.1.0.162.

    I then proceeded to install the USB Blaster, which installed successfully. And so I can now confirm that the USB Blaster driver with the aforementioned version works.

    However, since the installation problems for the newer Quartus versions pertain to expired certificates, I went to see what the certificate information was for the driver supplied with Quartus 13. The information said the certificate was supplied by VeriSign to Delaware Altera. And not just that, also the dates: Valid from 6/28/2011 to 8/24/2012. So this looks like an expired certification also. And yet it works.

    You will find 2 attachments: The certificate properties screenshot for this driver and a zipfile containing this driver.

    Since I can get around with this driver and still use Quartus 20.1.1.720 with MultiSim, this is what I'll keep using for now.

    Hope this helps with future driver releases.

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Farabi_Altera
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4 years ago

Hello,


I wish you could summarize your technical issues so we can focus.


By the way, Windows 11 is only supported by Quartus 22.1 and beyond. Prior to that, only Windows 10 and previous version is supported.


regards,

Farabi


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    Arno-NL
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    4 years ago

    Hello again!

    I've moved the LPDDR2 fitter issue to a new post. As for this post, I have one more addition and that is the following:

    * On my laptop the USB blaster driver had been installed successfully before with a previous version. And it still functions with Quartus 20.1.1.720. The USB flaster driver has never been uninstalled manually.

    * On my desktop, with the same Windows 10 and Quartus 20.1.1 I can't get the driver to install. WIndows does recognize a USB device when powering up the starterkit, but it doesn't put the driver under the right category in the device manager. The icon shows no error though. A note here is that I had uninstalled the USB blaster driver prior to upgrading Quartus from an earlier version to version 20.1.1.720.

    So, I haven't tried it yet but I may have to reinstall Windows 10 on my desktop (I did that recently anyway) and see whether the driver installs correctly again. When I do so, I'll report back.

    As far as the opening post, the post may be closed and or removed. Thanks again,

    Arno.