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18 years ago

Help regarding programmer of quartus 2

Hi everyone, I m a student and have recently taken up FPGAs.I have DE1 kit. i am facing a strange problem.After i have written ,compiled and simulated the program when i go to Programmer,i...
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18 years ago

Getting the programmer working on a fresh computer is kind of finicky in my experience.

I go to www.altera.com, type "usb blaster" in the search box, follow the instructions for the Windows driver, curse and reboot things randomly, and then it magically starts working and works forever after.

I think the key may be power cycling the board in addition to the computer. Good Luck.