4. Click Browse my computer for driver software to continue.

5. Click Browse… and browse to the location of the driver on your system:

\<Quartus Prime system directory>\drivers\usb-blaster-ii. Click OK.

6. Click Next to install the driver.

7. Click Install when asked if you want to install.

You should now have a JTAG cable showing in the Device Manager.

8. Now, install the driver for the other interface. Go back to step 2 and repeat the

process for the other download cable devices.

When you are finished, you will have added USB-Blast II (JTAG interface)

under JTAG cables.

1.6. Installing the Intel FPGA Download Cable II Driver on Linux

Systems

For Linux, the download cable supports Red Hat Enterprise 5, 6, and 7.

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 Intel FPGA

download cable drivers.

following lines to it. (The .rules file may already exist if you have installed an

earlier USB-Blaster version.)

a. Red Hat Enterprise 5 and above

# Intel FPGA Download Cable II

SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6010",

MODE="0666"

SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6810",

MODE="0666"

Caution: There should be only three lines in this file, one starting with a comment

and two starting with BUS. Do not add extra line breaks to the .rules

file.

2. Complete your installation by setting up the programming hardware in the Quartus

Prime software. Go to the “Setting Up the Intel FPGA Download Cable II Hardware

with the Quartus Prime Software” section.

For more information about download cable driver installation, refer to the Cable and

Adapter Drivers Information page.

Related Information

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Setting Up the Intel FPGA Download Cable II Hardware with the Quartus Prime

Software on page 7

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Cable and Adapter Drivers Information

1. Setting Up the Intel FPGA Download Cable II

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Intel FPGA Download Cable II User Guide

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