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16 years ago

Setting up BeMicro Cyclone III development Board

Hi, I'm trying to run a basic application using my BeMicro Cyclone III development board. But I've got some errors when I'm trying to set up my SOPC, using SOPC builder tool (Quartus > Too...
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16 years ago

To my knowledge both 64-bit Vista and Windows 7 are unsupported.

This is a typical difference between software and hardware engineers. Software engineers will typically have the latest and greatest or even experimental OS on their machines. They'll spend hours on end trying to get unsupported apps to work on unsupported OS's just for the fun of it. IT people tend to fall into this category as well.

To the typical hardware engineer, the OS has only one purpose and that is to support the applications. It just has to work. The hardware engineer will typically be years behind and reluctant to change.

So the recommendation ... if you're just having some fun, carry on and let us know how and when you get it working. If you really want to use the tools, switch back to a supported OS until the rest of the world catches up with your ambitions.

:) Jake