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eliofl
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5 years ago

Quartus Lite on M1 Mac

I am having trouble getting the drivers to be updated. Every time I try to do it it says it fails to install drivers. I thought it was because the drivers were not signed by Microsoft so I changed a ...
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creativito
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4 years ago

Same problem on my M1 MacBook running Windows 11 in parallels.

Quartus II works perfectly except that updating USB-blaster drivers fails. No idea how to fix this issue and I was wondering the driver is incompatible. May be I need to buy a standalone Windows laptop?

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    eliofl
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    4 years ago

    Yeah, I would go ahead and buy or borrow a Windows laptop. I was taking a computer hardware course last year and we had to use Quartus so I just went ahead and bought one because I could find a workaround. Macs with an intel chip do work though because I had a classmate with an Intel mac that got Quartus to work.

    Best of luck!

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    ak6dn
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    4 years ago

    Quartus is not yet officially supported on Windows 11.

    So if you want to get a platform that actually works NOW, find a Windows 10 system.

    Or load one of the supported Linux environments on a system and install the Linux Quartus version.