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8 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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8 years ago

It might not print the vendor and device id to the kernel log in that format. I typically see something like this: 

 usb 8-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 26 using xhci_hcd
 usb 8-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=09fb, idProduct=6010
 usb 8-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
 usb 8-1.2: Product: USB-BlasterII
 usb 8-1.2: Manufacturer: Altera

You should try to run "jtagconfig" and see if you get any errors. You could also try to run "jtagconfig" as root. If it works as root and not as your user it's probably a permission problem.