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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 requi...
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    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?