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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 f...
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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