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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

Several years ago when I switched a design from Xilinx to Altera, one of the things I was happy about was the fact that I could get the Altera tools to work in 64 bit Windows. I was never able to get the Xilinx USB tools to work with 64 bit Windows. Of course, this is not to say that you couldn't have the exact opposite experience.

I was kinda lucky in a way though as the first version of Quartus I ever tried was 7.2 SP3. For this version 64 bit just worked. After that Altera kinda messed it up for a bit.