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Prerana1
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1 year ago

Unable to detect the device

The problems we are facing are :

I am using ALTERA MAX10 FPGA Development board and i m using Quartus prime lite 23.1 lite edition.

So when i went to tools and in that i selected programmer , So there When i click on AUTO detect , It is coming like Unable to scan the device chain, hardware is not detected . I attached the image also. Please let me know about this and also using add device option i selected the proper FPGA and I programmed , but programming the device is failed and below error is coming

Error (209031): Device chain in Chain Description File does not match physical device chain -- expected 1 device(s) but found 0 device(s).

Please help me to bringup this development board.

Thank u

Hdl

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  • Ali789's avatar
    Ali789
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    6 hours ago

    Hello , 

    i am currently using Max 10 MS08SAE144C8G evaluation kit and want to flash a .pof file with altera usb 2 blaster via JTAG connector and Quartus Prime (18.1) The board is powered (Power LED is ON) and the blaster is also  connected.  When i click 'Auto detect' in the programmer, it returns an error saying  "unable to scan device chain. Hardware is not connected. The driver of the blaster seems to be already updated. For reference, i have attached a screenshot. Can anyone help here who has encountered such error previously ?

     

    Many Thanks

    Ali

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    RichardT_altera
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    1 year ago

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  • sstrell's avatar
    sstrell
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    1 year ago

    Power cycle the board and check if you accidentally have any DIP switches set that may remove the device from the JTAG chain.

    Since the Programmer is seeing the USB Blaster, the device should be there.

    • Prerana1's avatar
      Prerana1
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      1 year ago

      Hi

      I did check for these but the device is still not getting detected(can you tell me whether to keep the DIP switches high or low).

      I tried all the possible ways looking at user manual but nothing is working out.

      I have one more board which is DECA MAX 10 ALTERA FPGA EVALUATION BOARD , for this board also same issue is happening ,the device is not getting detected in Quartus Prime.

      Can you tell me what to do about this issue.

      Thankyou