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Press Enter to install and wait for it to finish (it shows a nice text-based progress bar). If you run the installer as a regular user, it will install the program in the user's home directory, but I prefer to have it installed under /opt. Note that I change the default installation directory. Installation Directory : /opt/intelFPGA_pro/20.1

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Specify the directory where Quartus Prime Pro Edition Programmer and Tools (License - Press enter about 300 times to scroll through it all)

Have the necessary GUI libraries installed, this installation will run in Warning: This installer detects you either don' t have a display set up or don' t PuTTY X11 proxy: Unsupported authorisation protocol That's fine, as the installation script falls back to text-only when no X server is sudo. On my system at least, sudo can't forward the X authorisation, so it all has to run from the command line. On the Linux machine, to install this in a public area you'll need to use sudo.

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At the time of writing, the latest version of the programmer was v20.1.0.277, so we'll download and install that.

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I don't know if this gives any advantage over the free version, but the Pro version has a higher/later version number than the free version, so I'll use that. However, for programming the devices, it turns out that the Pro version of the programmer can be used without a license. I run Quartus Prime Lite, the free version of Quartus, as the Standard and Pro versions cost money and I haven't yet been convinced to part with my (work's) hard-earned cash for a paid license. Once done, unplug and replug the USB Blaster and you should have access. You may need to prepend these with sudo depending on your distribution. If your USB blaster is a different device, add the corresponding Product ID to the udev rules file above.Īfter editing the udev rules, you'll need to refresh the udev daemon so the rules are picked up: So mine is enabled by the udev rules above. This results for lsusbīus 001 Device 003: ID 09fb:6001 Altera Blaster If this doesn't work for you, do an lsusb from the command line to list all the devices. This will enable regular users (and the jtag daemon) to have access to the hardware devices. You will have to enable the correct udev rules so it's recognised when you plug it in.Ĭreate a new file /etc/udev/rules.d/les, with the following contents: Simply plugging in the USB blaster isn't enough for Linux to recognise the device, since it's a fairly non-standard piece of equipment.

Start the JTAG server on startup (so we don't have to manually restart it each time).

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Run the programming software to test the JTAG functionality.

And TBH if you're already running Linux as your development environment you wouldn't have to do this anyway, so there's that too. Many of the good folks over at r/FPGA don't believe that Windows makes a viable workstation, but it works for me. Now, I'm going to assume you have Quartus setup on your windows machine, or the machine on which you do your FPGA development. I haven't yet found all of these instructions in the same place, so there you go. I'll document those below so you don't have to tear your hair out wondering why it doesn't work. Now, previously I have attempted this without much success, and it turns out there are a very specific set of instructions you must follow for this to work. The JTAG server can be run under both Linux besides Windows I have a number of Linux machines I could employ for this purpose that are conveniently located next to the hardware, so this will be what I do. It turns out that Quartus software supports native programming using a remote JTAG server. So, given that I need to program and re-program the FPGA, what is the solution? I read somewhere that uninstalling then restarting the jtag server from the command line fixes the problem, but again, that didn't work either. I have had this happen before with my previous computer, so I've put it down to the vagaries of Windows and having a number of devices hanging off the USB Bus. The usual Windows practice of rebooting didn't seem to fix it, nor did reinstalling the driver. This has been working well for me for a little while, but after a time and under some unknown conditions, the USB Blaster is suddenly not recognised by the Quartus Prime software any more, despite showing up healthy in the Windows Device Manager. The FPGA we've been using for this particular project is an Altera Intel MAX10 device, and we program it using a device called a USB Blaster. As part of my day job, I'm lucky enough to get to play around with all sorts of technology, and lately I've been involved in a project where we've had to use an FPGA for (things).