[Coco] DE-1 Control Panel woes

[Leslie Ayling]

Hi Dave, et al.

I'm inclined to think that Terasic have altered the firmware in the EPM3128 CPLD which 
provides the USB Blaster functionality at least one (or more) times.

I have had two DE1's on the bench at one point which each required a *different* control panel version
to operate correctly, even though I was using the same version of Quartus.

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Some of the earlier Control Panel versions seem to only work with a 32-bit version of Quartus.

Q2 V13.0sp1 installs both 32 *and* 64 versions by default (on Windoze anyway, don't know about linux), so that can also be a source of frustration. 
I keep a VM Windows XP 32-bit Q2 install handy for that very reason.

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It's just a shame that Terasic have never publicly released any details of which Control Panel versions are designed to work
with which revisions of the DE1 board, or which Quartus version :(

Might be an idea to collect all version of the DE1 Control Panel application over in the files are of the coco3fpga group?

Regards,
Leslie
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Dave Philipsen
Sent: Sunday, 29 October 2017 11:58 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] DE-1 Clarification Please

It’s *definitely* a problem with the control panel software.  The DE1 board itself is not to blame.

Dave