- Altera Usb Blaster Ii Driver Windows 10
- Altera Usb Blaster Driver Windows 10
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- Altera Usb Blaster Driver Windows 10
I had a problem with the Altera USB Blaster programmer.
When I connected the programmer to Windows 10 (64-bit), I received a message about an unrecognized USB device.
Here is a step by step manual guide for Altera USB-Blaster software installation process on Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 / Vista / XP. 1 Download LCDMonitordrXL2420G20102usb-blaster.7z file for Windows 7 / 8 / 8.1 / 10 / Vista / XP, save and unpack it if needed. For Windows 10, do the following: Plug the USB-Blaster into your PC. Open the Device and Printers (Control Panel Devices and Printers). Under Unspecified, USB Blaster should be listed. Right mouse click on this and then select Properties. Select the Hardware tab and select Properties. A new window should pop up with the General tab already selected. Change on Linux: Change via Quartus Tools or '.arrowusbblaster.conf' file, see install instructions Change on Windows. Change via Quartus Tools or change registry: Open Registry Editor on section: HKEYLOCALMACHINESOFTWARE Browse to Altera CorporationJTAGServerHardwareArrowUSBBlaster.
(I am Polish, that’s why I use the Polish language version of Windows).
To solve this problem you must disable driver signature enforcement on Windows 10.
After that, select the option to update the driver and indicate the folder with the drivers installed with the software. I had drivers downloaded along with Quartus II 10.0 Web Edition.After installation, the programmer should be recognized.
I started playing around with FPGA development using the Terasic DE0 development board recently and the first problem I encountered was the installation of the USB blaster driver. As far as I know there is no problem in installing the driver on Windows 7 but if you are using Windows 8 or 8.1 then you probably ran into the problem of Windows not allowing you to install unsigned drivers. I lost a significant amount of time to make the driver work on Windows 8.1 so to speed things up for you, here is what you do.
First, you need to obtain the driver to be installed. You probably already have it if you installed Quartus II, it comes with the installation. On my system it is located in:
C:altera15.0quartusdriversusb-blaster
Now, if you follow the instruction from Altera USB blaster install you probably get to step 8 of the instructions after which you are not prompted with a window mentioned on step 9. This is due to the fact that Windows 8 doesn’t allow you to install unsigned drivers by default so you need to disable this security option.
press Windows key and type in “Change advanced startup options”, and enter the options. You should see the following window (click on the picture to enlarge)
Advanced startup options – Recovery – Advanced startup
Altera Usb Blaster Ii Driver Windows 10
Go to Recovery and under Advanced startup locate Restart now. Before you click on it save whatever stuff you need to save since the restart is (almost) immediate. After you click on the button you will be prompted with a window providing you with a few options. Choose:
Troubleshoot -> Advanced options -> Startup Settings -> Restart
After restarting you will be prompted with another window that will provide you some other options. Choose:
7) Disable driver signature enforcement
Having all that in mind, now press the Restart now button from the screenshot above.
After restart try to install the USB blaster driver. Plug in the device, fire up Device Manager, locate the USB-blaster device and click on Update Driver Software.
On the new window that opens choose Browse my computer for driver software.
Choose to manually install the driver
In the next window, locate the driver and click Next.
Enter/browse for the location of the USB blaster driver. It’s in the Quartus II installation folder.
After the Window successfully finds the driver you should be prompted with the window:
Click on Install. When the driver installs you should see it installed in the Device Manager:
To check that Quartus II can now use the driver, open up Quartus II and go to:
Tools -> Programmer
A window will open. Click on Hardware Setup:
A new window will open. In the drop down menu choose USB blaster.
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Quatus II – Programmer – Hardware setup window
Click Close. In the Programmer window you should now see the USB blaster selected as a programmer.
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Quartus II – Programmer window with USB blaster selected
Altera Usb Blaster Driver Windows 10
That’s it! The driver is installed and you can now program the FPGA board.