Setting up BeMicro Cyclone III development Board

I make it working on Windows 7 32 bit machine. However, I had to resolve some quirks first.

My problem was with simultaneous work of JTAG Altera-Arrow adapter and USB UART located on the same FTDI chip or even on other connected FTDI devices (in my case it was SeaCom RS485 to USB adapter). Every time I tried to use Quartus programmer (GUI or JLI) when other FTDI UARTs where in use by other application it would blue screen my machine.

I found that problem was with ftd2xx.dll distributed with BeMicro kit. It's very old version of this dll librarry (dated way back to 2008). It looks like jtag_hw_arrow_usb_blaster.dll wants to use FTDI library which sits directly in the same folder, not one from System32 folder.

I recommend installing latest FTDI driver set and then copy ftd2xx.dll library from System32 folder into Altera folder (replacing older version which came with BeMicro kit).

I didn't yet test this solution on Win 7 64 bit platform, but since last batch of FTDI drivers compatible with 64bit system, I think programmer will work as well.