Altera Quartus 13 Upgrade This Blaster

Regarding my hardware: Im using cheapest FPGA devboard I could find - this one (sorry, I tried to give link here, but Im not allowed to do so, as Im new member - just google for EP2C5T144 Altera Cyclone II FPGA Mini Development Board ) plus some cheap USB Blaster from ebay.

However, under Ubuntu there are problems.

When trying to program the part in JTAG mode, output windows gives this error.

Info (209060): Started Programmer operation at Thu Aug 22 19:59:08 2013.

Info (209061): Ended Programmer operation at Thu Aug 22 19:59:09 2013.

Fourth screenshot shows my device selection - to ensure I have correct device selected.

Last one shows succesful attempt to program configuration FLASH in AS mode.

The same hardware, but plugged to USB ports of windows machine works flawlessly in both JTAG and AS programming.

I found terasic usb blaster at mouser.com for about 45EUR (Im not allowed to post links for now, but it should be the first hit afer entering phrase terasic usb blaster into search at mouser).

That one should be OK By the way, I took EPM3064A - good for quick prototype as it is in old-fashioned PLCC package - and wired it on piece of test PCB.

My cheap blaster programs this device in JTAG mode under both Windows and Linux with no problems.

However, for FPGA - in windows OK; in Linux no joy.

Altera Quartus 13 Upgrade This Blaster

BTW: is your cheap usb blaster based on cpld and FTDI chip If yes, I can try to help you upgrade this blaster.

There is just some Silabs MCU and level shifter - see attachement, please.

I thought all cheap knock-offs are made equal, just with different build quality.

Honestly, I didnt except such as creativity as developing their own hardwaresoftware designs.

Except of the terrible high intensity blue LED I have to replace with something normal.