Open the Device and Printers (Control Panel Devices and Printers). The Quartus II software uses the built-in USB drivers (usbfs) on RedHat Linux to access.

blaster works only with 64 bytes of endpoint size. To install the driver for your USB Blaster cable, follow the instruction for your particular operating system. This section describes how to install the USB-Blaster driver on Linux.

Please check that you don't have any blocking call in your loop function

Intel windows blaster driver is really picky so if you don't immediately and constantly call the loop function of the blaster library you may have issues as bad as a blue screen of death.

Once this is done you should check in device manager you see both com port and the blaster and install driver only for the blaster. In this case, to fix it, you have to uninstall the blaster driver checking the remove driver flag so that it won't autoinstall next time you plug it.

Apr 17, Using USB Blaster / USB Blaster II under Linux - Version 10 Radu Bacrau. Under windows, especially if you previously installed blaster drivers on your machine, the blaster driver may end up assigned to the composite device rather than to the blaster. Now that Ive seen Windows update attempt to install drivers for a.

we are slightly different than blaster as we expose a composite device with a serial port AND a USB blaster. USB Blaster Download Cable is designed for ALTERA FPGA, CPLD, Active Serial Configuration Devices and Enhanced Configuration Devices, USB 2.0 connection to the PC and JTAG, AS, PS to the target device.

In any case what you should check is the following: USB blaster support is experimental so there are a few things that may go wrong.

Install usb blaster driver