DE10 Advance Performing a FPGA System Test: Installing the USB-Blaster II Driver

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The steps below outline the step-by-step process of installing the USB-Blaster II driver.

  • Connect your computer to the development board by plugging the USB cable into the USB connector (J20) of DE10-Advanced. (connection shown in Figure 2-3)
  • Power up the board and open the device manager in Windows. You will find an unknown device, as shown in Figure 4-1.
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Figure 4-1 Unknown device on device manager
  • Select the unknown device to update the driver software. The driver file is in the \<Quartus Prime installation directory>\drivers\ usb-blaster-ii directory.
  • After the driver is correctly installed, the device will be recognized as Intel USB-Blaster II, as shown in Figure 4-2.
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Figure 4-2 USB-Blaster II driver is installed correctly

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