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9 years ago

Recommendations for a USB Blaster cable that has worked with Quartus on W 10

Hi Quartus Prime Lite is officially not ready for Windows 10 but I was fine using it that way until trying JTAG communications with a USB Blaster clone from Waveshare. Does anyone have a recommen...
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9 years ago

According to the WaveShare site, their clone uses an FT245. If you use FTDIs FT_PROG tool to look at its USB info, I'm pretty sure it will read-out identical to a USB-Blaster. I doubt that the issue is related to the clone, it is more likely due to the use of Windows 10. If you look on the Altera site, they do not support Windows 10:

https://www.altera.com/support/support-resources/download/os-support.html

You could file an Altera Service Request and ask them when Windows 10 will be supported.

Cheers,

Dave