Altera USB Blaster III Driver Installation Instructions

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The following installation steps are taken from the "USB Blaster III FPGA Development Cable User Guide" .


To access the cable, the Quartus® Prime software uses the built-in Red Hat USB drivers, the USB file system (usbfs). By default, root is the only user allowed to use usbfs. You must have system administration (root) privileges to configure the USB Blaster III FPGA Development Cable drivers.

1.Create a file named /etc/udev/rules.d/51-usbblaster.rules and add the following lines to it. 

# USB Blaster III 
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", ATTR{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTR{idProduct}=="6023", MODE="0666", NAME="bus/usb/$env{BUSNUM}/$env{DEVNUM}", RUN+="/bin/chmod 0666 %c"

Important: Do not add extra line breaks to the .rules file.

Note: The .rules file may already exist if you have installed an earlier USB Blaster version.

2.After the usbblaster.rules file has been updated a reboot or reload of the udev rules is required. To reload, root access is required to run the command: 

udevadm control --reload-rules && udevadm trigger

3.Complete your installation by setting up the programming hardware in the Quartus® Prime software. Refer to the Programming with Your USB Blaster III FPGA Development Cable section.

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