Usb Blaster Programmer

[Neomi Bensch]

hievryone, am a complete newbie. I run quartus II on win7 x32, but programmer only sees 'ethernet blaster' at 'add hardware', usb blaster is not present at all. There is already a usb blaster folder in the quartus II program files, indicating that it has installed. pls, i need help.

When you insert the cable into the USB, does it indicates it has found the driver? install the driver located into the altera folder. I face the same problem sometimes , closing the programmer and reopening or re-inserting the usb helps. In your case, most probably the driver is missing.

Thanks. the notifications bar does not indicate anything when the usb cable is inserted. However, I have gone to device manager, it is showing 'The drivers for this device are not installed. (Code 28)'.pls, what can i do.

Apparently there are High Priests who know the solution to this problem and will not share it with the user community. I am sick and tired of playing Quartus II Roulette to find a driver which works.

On a brand new PC (Win10 x64 32GB) just installed Q17.0. Plugged in the USB-Blaster. Loaded a project, opened the programmer and the USB-Blaster was no where to be found. Found it in the device manager with a problem. No known reason for the problem. Tried updating the driver by selected the Blaster directories under Drivers - didn't work. Came to think of it; had the same problem last time I played with Q16 on another machine with a DE0-Nano-SOC. Found that if you chose just the Drivers directory and not the Blaster directory it finds the driver needed and pops up in the programmer. Why Altera/Intel has this been a problem for so many years and how many years more are we going to wait for it just to work when it's plugged in?

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On a new netbook (Samsung NC10 with XP home, sp3) I installed the quartus II version 8.1 programmer. I also installed drivers for the usb blaster. The programmer keeps saying: No Hardware at hardware setup.

I have a Samsung netbook running win7-starter. I read several threads and tried firewall settings and different versions of quartus programmer -- and had several frustrating days and many hours of lost work. One common thread seems to be the compatibility of windows & programmer versions. So ...

Thanks for the reply, I had the same issue with there being old instances of Quartus left behind. I took the bin folder from the first instance and pasted in the newer instance. I also manually initiated Jtag server. It worked for the time being but I'll tell if it sticks once I restart my computer

Bus Blaster is an experimental, high-speed JTAG debugger for ARM processors, FPGAs, CPLDs, flash, and more. Thanks to a reprogrammable buffer, a simple USB update makes Bus Blaster v2 compatible with many different JTAG debugger types in the most popular open source software.

Bus Blaster v4 is a redesign of v3/v2 that supports SWV, an obscure extension to a reduced pincount JTAG protocol most people will never use. Unless you need it, stick with v3 and save a few bucks! That's why v4 is down here and v3 is still on top of the page.

Please note that the following git commit fixed a bug that caused UrJTAG to stop working once it was used with openFPGAloader, until the Bus Blaster was disconnected from and reconnected to the USB bus.

There are 2 cable types: bus_blaster to drive the JTAG bus, and bus_blaster_b to access the onboard Xilinx CPLD. However, at the moment, openFPGAloader does not support programming the XC2C32A onboard.

Here is my problem. After connecting the USB Blaster to my Win7 computer for the first time and installing the driver from altera\11.1sp2\quartus\drivers, the USB Blaster shows up in the control panel as "USB-Blaster(Altera)" but Quartus II doesn't show it in the Programmer's Hardware Setup page.

In troubleshooting, I also tried installing the same version of Quartus II and the USB blaster on my Win10 laptop, but the driver isn't signed for win10 so I dropped that approach. Back on the Win7 computer I tried using the command prompt to open altera\11.2sp2\quartus\bin\jtagconfig.exe and saw it read out the message "No JTAG hardware available".

On Quartus Pro 20.4, the chip programmer GUI would not see this device. I solved this by running the chip programmer GUI as administrator. Once the program launched, I could hear the typical USB connect/disconnect ding-dong sound effects from Windows. Then the device showed up in the programmer and it worked fine. In device manager, its new name was "Altera USB-Blaster II (JTAG interface)". After that, I didn't have to run the programmer as administrator to connect.

I just encountered this problem on Windows 11 64-bit. I ran the command "C:\intelFPGA_lite\22.1std\quartus\bin64>quartus_pgm.exe -l", which should list available programmers, and it said "No JTAG hardware available". I tried solutions listed here. None worked. The registry key suggested isn't there on W11 either.

Select the Hardware tab and select Properties. A new window should pop up with the General tab already selected. Select Change Settings. Again a new window should pop up with the General tab already selected. Select Update. Select

Find \quartus\drivers\ (Note 1: Your altera file is located at the location you selected when you first installed quartus. The location listed in this document is the default location) (Note 2: Stop at the drivers folder, i.e., do NOT go deeper by opening a folder within the drivers folder. This is important.) Select OK.

I don't think I had to restart, but you might have to. Try running C:\intelFPGA_lite\22.1std\quartus\bin64>quartus_pgm.exe -l again, and see if the device is listed. It was for me "1) USB-Blaster [USB-0]".

I have an FTDI based UARTUSB cable which I use to communicate with the board I am working on, I found that if I have the associated COM port open in my terminal application (SecureCRT, in my case) the USB-Blaster does NOT show up in Quartus.If I simply close the COM port the Blaster is once again available in Quartus.

The frequency of the JTAG clock TCK can be configured using an additional configuration file. The programmer hardware library searches the configuration data using different file names at two different locations.

If there is the need to change the JTAG clock frequency, copy the file "arrow_usb_blaster.conf" and adjust the frequency to your needs.

The programmer shared library uses the FTDI library libftd2xx version 1.4.8 which is statically linked.

The programmer shared library for Linux has been developed and tested under Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. However it should also work with other Linux distributions.

I bought a MAX 10 FPGA 10M08 Dev Board and is has a JTAG on it that says to program with a Altera USB Blaster. Being impatient and all can I use my AVR Programmer and connect, assuming target power is used like so?

Not only is JTAG completely different from Atmel's AVR ISP, even if you had an Atmel JTAG programmer, it's very unlikely it would work with the Altera FPGA. Despite JTAG being a common "standard", JTAG programmers/devices from different vendors do not necessarily work together, often because the vendor specific tools do not like non-vendor programmers.

The JK Blaster Lite is an essential tool for all Wrangler JK owners that run bigger tires, changed their gear ratio, or that want more functionality than what came from the factory. Plug-and-play installation, simply plug into the OBD2 port and then open the smartphone app to pair and program functions and calibrations to the Jeep. The JK Blaster Lite has two types of features - changes made to the Jeep like tire size, gear ratio, and others to accommodate new modifications (these changes will continue to operate after the JK Blaster Lite is unplugged) and the Tazer exclusive "live" features that only activate while the JK Blaster Lite is plugged in. All features and calibrations are accessed using the downloadable JKBlaster smartphone app. The JK Blaster Lite is the basic function programmer, for those that may want more features than just basic calibration, we recommend the JK Blaster.

We used to bitbang Altera devices from the Cypress FX2 device.

I suggest you connect the FTDI device to the Cyclone in SPI -> Slave Serial Mode. Use a GPIO pin to control the Config_n input of the FPGA.

FTDI appnote: _135_MPSSE_Basics.pdf

If you take care you can later use the SPI interface to communicate with the downloaded logic - connect DCLK to another FPGA IO-pin.

We are actually not programming the Cyclone 10 device but rather the serial EEPROM that it is connected to using the ASMI interface. So, we program the EEPROM, cycle power, then the Cyclone 10 boots and loads from the EEPROM using its Active Serial mode.

But if you actually want to program that serial EEprom from the blank state via the FTDI, things get more complicated, and I am out my comfort zone then. We have never done that. Why not just keep on using the USB blaster?

Or this: load a boot-logic into the FPGA using the SPI-mode I suggested. After that switch the SPI to control mode and write the serial EEprom. On the next power-on the FPGA can then boot from the serial EEprom. The remote update IP fromAltera/Intel may help: -10-lp-remote-system-update-design-example/

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