Drivers Cyclone USB Devices



Select Browse my computer for driver software (advanced) when you see the Windows couldn’t find driver software for your device. And browse to the drivers usb-blaster directory. Select the Include subfolders option and click Next. Hexamob 11/3/2013. To get the drivers of your Android phone or tablet to let a PC or Mac recognizes it through the USB port, you need to install a driver on your PC. To make this, download and install the USB driver following the instructions. Some brands, usually the most important, such as Huawei, Samsung, LG, Mororola, Xiaomi, etc have a specific software to install the driver for your mobile phone or tablet running this software on your PC. Update the device driver In the search box on the taskbar, enter device manager, then select Device Manager. Select a category to see names of devices, then right-click (or press and hold) the one you’d like to update. Select Search automatically for updated driver software. With a USB-C connection, you can charge your Windows 10 PC, and you can also connect to other USB Type-C devices such as mobile phones, docking stations, display adapters, and other devices that have a USB-C port.

Windows provides in-box device class drivers for many USB-IF approved device classes, audio, mass storage, and so on. USB generic function driver–WinUSB Windows provides Winusb.sys that can be loaded as a function driver for a custom device and a function of a composite device. USB generic parent driver for composite devices–Usbccgp.

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This page will guide you through all steps needed to install all the necessary tools for Windows to use your FPGA4U at home.

  • 1On Windows
    • 1.3Install USB drivers
  • 2On Linux
    • 2.2Install Quartus II
    • 2.3Install USB drivers
      • 2.3.1Known issues

Download the Installer

Go to the Download page of the Quartus II Web Edition here and download it.

Install Quartus II

  • Execute the installer and follow the instructions until you reach Components Select.
  • There, select:
    • Quartus II Web Edition software (Free)
      • Cyclone II family for FPGA4U
      • Cyclone IV E family for FPGA4U DE0
    • [Optional] ModelSim-Altera Starter edition (Free)
  • Note that it is possible to add more components later on.
  • At the end of the installer you can run Quartus II. (No need to open the subscription page request). But before being able to program the board you will need to install the drivers.
If you are updating a previous version of Quartus II, do not forget to update the USB-Blaster driver accordingly or you may experience strange behavior from JTAG based features.


Install USB drivers

FPGA4U DE0

Plug your board to your computer. Windows should ask you for the location of the drivers. Select the usb-blaster folder from your Quartus install. It is generally found in C:altera{VERSION}quartusdriversusb-blaster.

FPGA4U

For the FPGA4U, the installation of the drivers may require a special procedure, because since firmware 4.2 the FPGA4U USB device implements two interfaces. The first interface emulates the official USB-Blaster of Altera and the second can be used to transfer data between your PC and the FPGA4U. When you plug your FPGA4U for the first time, Windows will detect that this is a composite device (i.e., device with multiple interfaces) and may ask for a driver for each interface. We don't want to install two drivers, but a single driver for this composite device. To do so:

  1. Close any driver installation wizard popping up.
  2. Go into the Device Manager (Keys Start+Break or Start -> Control Panel -> System, Hardware Tab, and Device Manager Button).
  3. In the USB devices list, look for a USB Composite Device with the following id: USBVID_09FB&PID_6001&REV_0400. To get the ID of a device, right-click on it and select Properties -> Details -> Device instance id.
    • If you cannot find it and have an Unknown device or a single Altera USB-Blaster that matches the id, simply continue this tutorial with this device instead.
  4. Once you found the USB Composite Device, update its driver (right-click -> Update driver...).
  5. Select manually the driver to install:
    • Do not let Windows look for a driver for you.
    • Select the driver from a specific location.
    • Click on the Have Disk button.
    • Select manually the driver located typically in C:altera{VERSION}quartusdriversusb-blaster, where VERSION refers to the version of Quartus II.
    • Click Ok to install the driver.

Now when you open the Programmer in Quartus II (Tools -> Programmer), Hardware Setup... should list USB-Blaster [USB-0]. If you have trouble programming the board or to use the USB interface, try to install the last version of the firmware.

Known Issues

A conflict was reported between Quartus II version 12.0 and Windows 7 and 8 64-bit systems that makes your FPGA unrecognized. The JTAG service (necessary to communicate with the FPGA) fails to be automatically setup during the Quartus installation and results in the Programmer failing to list the connected JTAG devices. A solution is proposed in the Altera forum: http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36775

Since Quartus II 10.0, the Web-edition is also available for Linux systems.

Download the Installer

Go to the Download page of the Quartus II Web Edition here and download it.

Install Quartus II

By executing the script, it should open a GUI similar to the Windows version. Like for windows, in the components selection dialog, make sure to select the Cyclone II family if you are using the regular FPGA4U or the Cyclone IV E for the FPGA4U DE0. Then, simply follow the instructions.

Troubleshooting

Some people experienced an error during the execution of the install script:

Apparently there is a conflict with the file libX11.so.6. Here is a simple workaround:

  • Add the option --confirm to execute the install script.
  • Before proceeding, in another terminal, go in the same directory than the install script and delete the file ./bin/libX11.so.6.
  • Now you can proceed.
  • The installer GUI should pop up.

Install USB drivers

If you have problem programming your FPGA4U board, verify that you have the latest firmware version (look at this page).

Since v4.2.0, the firmware fixes a bug, which would not let the board to be programmed in High-speed on Linux and Mac OS systems.


To let users use the USB-Blaster device, you need to give them the right to. On Gentoo, you must add your user to the usb group (in /etc/group) to be able to program the device. On other distributions, you need to have write access to /proc/bus/usb/bus/id.

Drivers cyclone usb devices adapter

Here is an example for Ubuntu:

  • Create a new rule file with your favorite text editor (like vim):

Drivers Cyclone Usb Devices Pc Camera

  • Insert the following lines
  • Load this new rule by typing:

Known issues

Ubuntu (9.10 and 10.04)

Drivers Cyclone Usb Devices Wireless Adapter

For older Quartus versions than 11.0, we need to patch the JTAG server to look for devices in /sys/kernel/debug/usb/devices instead of /proc/bus/usb/devices, and in /dev/bus/usb/.../.../ instead of /proc/bus/usb/.../.../.

As the former won't fit in the string placeholder of the binary file, we choose to create a soft link.

This soft link will disappear on reboot, so if you don't want to type it every time, add this line in a script or in your /etc/rc.local file (without the sudo).

Now we will use sed to replace the paths that the JTAG server is looking at. There are 2 sets of commands, one for 32-bit OS and the other one for 64-bit. Select the set corresponding to your system. If you have a doubt, it won't harm to patch both files. Before executing the commands, replace <installation path> by your installation path (e.g., /opt/altera/10.0). Note that these commands will create a backup copy of the JTAG server (jtagd.bak).

For 32-bit OS:

For 64-bit OS:

Now, if you execute

Drivers Cyclone Usb Devices 3.0

You should get something like this:

If you are on Mac OS, a solution is to use a virtual machine running Windows or Linux. You can follow the same steps as described in the On Windows or On Linux sections for Quartus and drivers installation.

If you have problem programming your board, verify that you have the last firmware version (look at this page).

Since v4.2.0, the firmware fixes a bug, which would not let the board to be programmed in High-speed on Linux and Mac OS systems.

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Improvements and fixes

This update includes a fix for an incorrect device driver (“Microsoft – WPD – 2/22/2016 12:00:00 AM - 5.2.5326.4762”) that was released by a third-party on March 8, 2017 that affected a small group of users with USB connected phones or other media devices that rely on Media Transfer Protocol (MTP). If the driver is on your system, when any of these devices are connected, Windows will try to install this driver. These devices will not be connected until the driver is removed. This incorrect driver was removed from Windows Update the same day, but it may have been downloaded to your computer. After installing this update the incorrect driver will be removed.

How to get this update

This update will be downloaded and installed automatically from Windows Update. To get the stand-alone package for this update, go to the Microsoft Update Catalog website.

If you are not able to connect your phone or media device via USB and are not running one of these Windows versions, you can still remove this driver using the process described here:







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