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10 years ago

USB Blaster cable fails to programm, causes PC to restart

I recently used a USB blaster cable for programming my CPLD (MAX V family) using Quartus Prime lite edition. The problem that I am facing is that during the first two-three attempts of using the prog...
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10 years ago

Wow, that sounds nasty. I've never heard of that before. Anything change on the PC since it was working, like a Windows update, Quartus update, etc? You might try reinstalling Quartus so that the driver gets reinstalled. And try a Project -> Clean Project .. in Quartus to clear the project database. Then rebuild and try again. I suppose this could be an electrical problem but I doubt it. Sounds like a tool/driver problem.

If all else fails open a Service Request with Altera and send them your project.

Please post back with whatever happens. This is a good one.

Bob