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15 years ago

USB BLASTER Hardware missing in Quartus II under Win7 64 bit

That's really a bad news, what happened is that we need big memory (around 5~6 G) and we have no choice but change to a 64 bit OS system. And then like everybody knows, Win7 doesn't like o...
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15 years ago

Hmmm... I have used the USB Blaster on several 64-bit platforms (Win7, Ubuntu and CentOS) with relatively minor issues.

On Windows7/XP-64 you could try installing the standalone qii programmer (https://www.altera.com/download/programming/quartus2/pq2-index.jsp) by itself to see if it's some sort of funky issue with the installer or the options you're choosing during installation.

As far as "X" tools go, they are not as well-designed as Altera's. True you might be able to get things working, but in my opinion you'll lose time due to tool quality during the rest of your design process.

Regards,

--slacker