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7 years ago

Programming DE1-SoC FPGA only from Quartus Prime Lite Edition Ubuntu 16.04

Hello, I am trying to simply program my CycloneV FPGA on the DE1-SoC board from Quartus Prime Lite in Ubuntu 16.04. I cannot seem to get it to work. The user guide says to do an auto-detect from the ...
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7 years ago

I have three different versions of a rules file:

I have one file: /etc/udev/rules.d/40-usbblaster.rules

which containts 

UBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6001", GROUP="plugdev", MODE="0666", SYMLINK+="usbblaster"

and another /etc/udev/rules.d/51-usbblaster.rules 

# USB-Blaster
BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="09fb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6001", MODE="0666"
BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="09fb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6002", MODE="0666" 
BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="09fb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6003", MODE="0666"   
#  USB-Blaster II
BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="09fb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6010", MODE="0666"
BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="09fb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6810", MODE="0666"

and another /etc/udev/rules.d/51-altera-usb-blaster.rules 

#USB-Blaster
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="09fb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6001", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="09fb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6002", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="09fb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6003", MODE="0666"
#  USB-Blaster II
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="09fb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6010", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="09fb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6810", MODE="0666"

I am pretty sure you don need all, but this is what turned out to work for me, and I did not dig deeper into which parts are needed and which are not.