[Coco] DE-1 Control Panel woes

[Jerry Adams]

Leslie, Maybe this might help. DE1-CD-V8
<https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzjCFZ4JTWBWcmN0X1daNzNMV3c>

😉

Jerry Adams

On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 5:00 AM, Leslie Ayling <layling at bigpond.net.au>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> ---
>
> 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.
>
> ---
>
> 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
>
>
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