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JetForMe
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3 years ago

Any hope of a Windows 11 ARM driver for USB Blaster?

I'm running Windows 11 on ARM. Quartus 22.1 and the terasIC apps Control Panel and System Builder run, but the Altera USB Blaster driver won't install, because it's x86 only, and Windows on ARM requires drivers to be ARM.

The driver itself is just rebranded FTDI, and FTDI has certified drivers for Windows 11 on ARM. It should be trivial to get a new version of Intel’s, but I have no idea where to ask for this, other than here.

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  • Anhxizer's avatar
    Anhxizer
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    3 years ago

    Any updates? Will the USB Blaster driver become available for ARM processors, so that people with newer computers (Apple already released their second generation of ARM processor machines) can use Quartus again? Or are we riding a dead horse (Intel FPGA) here?

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    Johey
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    2 years ago

    I also would like to have a driver for the USB Blaster for Windows 11 on ARM64 (using Parallels on Mac with M1 architecture). Any updates of the progress?

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    2 years ago

    Hey, any updates on this matter?

    I'd like a driver for the USB Blaster to work with Windows 11 on ARM64, which I am running on an Apple Silicon Mac via VMware Fusion.
    Is it even an option that is being developed?

    Thanks.

    • JetForMe's avatar
      JetForMe
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      3 years ago

      That page has no drivers for Windows 11 or arm64. It also doesn't expressly say "USB Blaster" anywhere, so I don't know if that product has been renamed, or what.

      On the DE0-Nano board I have, the documentation says it has a "USB Blaster" built-in. This is an FTDI FT245D chip, and it uses FTDI drivers, but has some customizations for matching a different vendor and product ID, so the standard downloadable driver from FTDI won't work correctly.

      What options do I have?

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      JetForMe
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      3 years ago

      Yeah, I tried those steps. Doesn't work. The driver needs to be arm64.

      You guys need to update Quartus to just use the standard FTDI drivers. You can use API calls in their library to find devices with your vendor and product IDs, no need to ship a specialized driver. And since you're already using the FTDI driver anyway, the change should be trivial, something that could be in the next maintenance release of Quartus.

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    hareesh
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    3 years ago

    Hi,

    Already engineering team working it. in next release it can support all type of OS's.


    if you don't have any queries i will close this case. please conform


    Thanks,


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    hareesh
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    3 years ago

    sorry we don't know about that details. mostly i think 2023 first or second month will be release.


    • JetForMe's avatar
      JetForMe
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      3 years ago

      Hopefully soon. Is there any way to use Quartus to generate files that I can download with openocd?

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    JetForMe
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    3 years ago

    Hmm, that seems to be for debugging a Nios V processor core on Intel FPGAs. I don't see anything in the steps that shows loading the Nios V core onto the FPGA, just debugging code running on the core.