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14 years ago

Programming Cyclone II kit with Quartus and Linux

Hi,

I have been used to program my FPGA with Quartus 7.2 and Windows, but I am now required to do so with Linux, so I installed Quartus 11.0 with the Altera Installer, everything seemed to be fine, until I tried to load a simple program of mine : the USB cable is detected (it's called USB blaster variant [5-2] , but when I click "Start", nothing happens. What am I doing wrong ?

Thanks,

S

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    Altera_Forum
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    14 years ago

    :( Still no replies.. I was wondering : maybe I need to change the rights of the USB dev file ? I just can't understand why it shows up and won't work. Or maybe I should try with a more stable version ? I'm clueless, so any idea, (even guesses) is welcome !

    S
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    14 years ago

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    Hi,

    I have been used to program my FPGA with Quartus 7.2 and Windows, but I am now required to do so with Linux, so I installed Quartus 11.0 with the Altera Installer, everything seemed to be fine, until I tried to load a simple program of mine : the USB cable is detected (it's called USB blaster variant [5-2] , but when I click "Start", nothing happens. What am I doing wrong ?

    Thanks,

    S

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    Same problem, it shows USB Blaster Variant but at progress bar it says Failed :/

    Ubuntu 11.04 here...

    Any solution?
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    14 years ago

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    Same problem, it shows USB Blaster Variant but at progress bar it says Failed :/

    Ubuntu 11.04 here...

    Any solution?

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    Ubuntu 11.04 works fine with USB-Blasters. Look at the threads on the subject.

    http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=32179

    http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=31426

    What is your 'variant', I assume some sort of clone? It should also work fine, but perhaps your udev rules are not setup correctly.

    One caveat: USB-Blasters do not work from virtual machines (VirtualBox or VMWare) - at least when I last checked a few weeks ago. VirtualBox has just released 4.1.4, but I haven't tested it yet.

    Cheers,

    Dave