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GlennR
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1 year ago
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Can't use USB Blaster on Windows 11 without disabling core isolation memory?

I am trying to use Quartus Prime Lite 17.0's USB blaster drivers on a new install of Windows 11. I have also tried the latest version 23.x's drivers. The result is both the same. The Windows PC will not load the USB blaster's device driver unless I disable core isolation memory on that computer. I can reboot the computer into safe mode and the USB blaster works fine.

Is there a workaround that I do not need to disable core isolation memory to get this to work on my Windows 11 PC?

Thanks!

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  • GlennR's avatar
    GlennR
    1 year ago

    Thanks Frank. I successfully got the Terasic USB Blaster to work based on your advice. I had mistakenly installed version 20.1 when I thought I had installed the latest V23.1 std edition of quartus prime lite. Once I installed the latest version, I used the programmer to successfully program my version 17.0 image into the Cyclone V FPGA I am using. I can upgrade my project from 17.0 to V23.1 next. The main goal of this thread was to simply use the USB blaster on Windows 11. It works. The Terasic USB Blaster works with V23.1 std edition just fine without disabling core isolation memory. Here is the command I used to program my device: c:\intelFPGA_lite\23.1std\quartus\bin64\quartus_pgm.exe -c "USB-Blaster [USB-0]" output_files\chameleon_v2.cdf

    Thanks again!

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  • FvM's avatar
    FvM
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    1 year ago
    Hi,
    must confess that I'm not yet using Windows 11 for professional work due to some incompatible CAD tools. The first Quartus version supporting Windows 11 is V23.1, I'd expect that it's also compatible with core isolation feature. Did you check if running JTAG server is actually V23.1?

    Regards
    Frank
    • GlennR's avatar
      GlennR
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      1 year ago

      Thanks Frank. I successfully got the Terasic USB Blaster to work based on your advice. I had mistakenly installed version 20.1 when I thought I had installed the latest V23.1 std edition of quartus prime lite. Once I installed the latest version, I used the programmer to successfully program my version 17.0 image into the Cyclone V FPGA I am using. I can upgrade my project from 17.0 to V23.1 next. The main goal of this thread was to simply use the USB blaster on Windows 11. It works. The Terasic USB Blaster works with V23.1 std edition just fine without disabling core isolation memory. Here is the command I used to program my device: c:\intelFPGA_lite\23.1std\quartus\bin64\quartus_pgm.exe -c "USB-Blaster [USB-0]" output_files\chameleon_v2.cdf

      Thanks again!

      • GlennR's avatar
        GlennR
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        1 year ago

        I should note that I went into device manager under windows and updated the driver for the altera usb blaster device listed to point to the usb blaster folder under the quartus prime lite installation folder. That way it used the correct version of the drivers. As soon as I did that, windows recognized the device without an error.

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    NurAiman_M_Intel
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    1 year ago

    I’m glad that your question has been addressed, I now transition this thread to community support. If you have a new question, Please login to ‘ https://supporttickets.intel.com’, view details of the desire request, and post a feed/response within the next 15 days to allow me to continue to support you. After 15 days, this thread will be transitioned to community support. The community users will be able to help you on your follow-up questions.