altera usb blaster driver download windows 8

You need to download and install driver for USB Blaster. If you connect this USB Blaster cable to your Windows computer, then you need also to locate USB Blaster Driver in your computer and if it is not installed. Note that USB Blaster cable requires 5.0V from USB cable and between 1.5V and 5.0V from target circuit board.

USB Blaster cable provides also configuration support for MAX3000 and MAX7000 devices, configuration devices including EPC2, EPC16, and serial configuration devices including EPCS1 and EPCS4. USB Blaster cable offers configuration support for FGPA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) devices – ICs designed to be configured by customer or designer after manufacturing, and programming support for CPLD devices (Complex Programmable Logic Device) – Programmable logic device with complexity between that of PALs and FGPAs and architectural features of both. You can connect USB Blaster cable to your computer’s USB port via universal USB plug, and to a 10-pin male header on the circuit board containing target device via 10-pin female plug. USB Blaster is just cable uses has same functionality as the ‘ByteBlaster II’ and ‘EthernetBlaster’ cable, and the difference is only that USB Blaster uses USB port, while other two cable uses parallel port and Ethernet connection respectively.

Altera usb blaster driver download windows 8