There was a version of Quartus that didn’t do this (version 16.1) but it was usually hard to find and wasn’t available to most users. This usually created the need to uninstall the USB Blaster and try it again…to no avail. Some have found when setting this up with the clone (read here Chinese) ‘Altera’ USB Byte Blasters using various versions of the programming application, Quartus II, that if you’re using Windows 10 (and even the recently expired Windows 7, let’s not even discuss Windows 8) that plugging in the USB Blaster into your USB port on your PC when the application has been installed created a confounding issue where the drivers for the application would install the it as a USB device and immediately cause the PC to enter the ‘Blue Screen of Death’ - nobody likes to see that. ![]() ![]() On occasion it’s been necessary to reprogram the LimeSDR or Lime-Mini using the JTAG port on the Lime of choice and an Altera USB Byte Blaster.
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