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10 years ago

USB Blaster not recognized in Windows 7

I am moving my project from a computer running Windows XP to one running Windows 7. I installed Quartus 10.1 sp1 and 15.0 on the Windows 7 computer. I used Windows Device Manager to install the 64 ...
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9 years ago

Not mentioned in rbattista's posts, but XDS100 JTAG adapter seems to use a FTDI chip.

If so, the post has been actually posted in the wrong thread. There are previous threads about the USB Blaster/other FTDI devices problem, which apparently got worse with Windows 7 and/or 64 Bit FTDI drivers, I'm not quite sure. See e.g. http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2015

It's really annoying that Altera doesn't manage to fix the problem in the USB Blaster driver. No other device using FTDI USB bridges seems to have this kind of massive problems.