Issues with programming an Altera max 10 DE10-Lite

[finlay_morrison]

I am currently trying to program my DE10-Lite for the first time, I am using the usb cable they provided with the FPGA development board.

Quartus seems to recognise the USB programmer when I plug it in, since if I unplug the FPGA and programming USB cable and open up the programmer and go into hardware setup, there is nothing in the available hardware items, however if I plug the USB programming cable in with the FPGA and open up the hardware setup in the programmer it shows an option for "USB-Blaster" with server: "Local" and port: "3-1".

If I select the option in the menu, I then get "USB_Blaster [3-1]" in the box next to hardware setup.

After selecting the ".sof" that I would like to upload to the FPGA and pressing start I get the following output into the Quartus terminal:

Info (209060): Started Programmer operation at Mon Jan 25 10:09:50 2021
Error (209040): Can't access JTAG chain
Error (209012): Operation failed
Info (209061): Ended Programmer operation at Mon Jan 25 10:10:20 2021

I have verified that the board is receiving power, since it is running the default program of the seven segment displays counting when it is plugged in through the USB programming cable.

My question is then, do you know how I can fix these issues and program the FPGA? If there is any detail that I am missing for you to be able to answer this question, then I will be happy  to provide more.

Details:

Quartus Version        : 20.1
Operating System     : Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS x86_64
Development Board : DE10-Lite
FPGA                            : Altera MAX10 (10M50DAF484C7G)
Programming cable  : USB Type-A to USB Type-B (Came with DE10-Lite board)

Images:

Hardware setup menu:

Programmer window after selecting the USB-Blaster:

Console output when trying to program:

[YuanLi_S_Intel]

Hi,

Just would like to check, have you setup the rules for USB blaster in linux environment?

You may refer to link below for more information:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/programmable/support/support-resources/download/drivers/dri-usb_b-lnx.html

Thank You.

Regards,

Bruce

[finlay_morrison]

I have done this, and it does not fix my issue

[mortenjc]

Hi

I am in the exact same position. Everything seems to install fine, the usb blaster is recognized
but programming fails with the same message.

Note that I ONLY use USB. So it both provides power to the DE10-lite board

and is also used for programming. I don't know if this is a problem. But I have found no
information on how to debug this.

Any help would be appreciated.

Morten

[mortenjc · Accepted solution]

Ok I found out what is wrong

The problem seems to be with jtagd (jtag daemon) trying to read the shared library libudev.so.0
on my machine this is located in /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu

do 

> cd /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
> ls -l | grep libudev.so

If you only have a libudev.so.1 (which is a symlink to libudev.so.1.6.17 on my machine)

> ln -s libudev.so.1.6.17 libudev.so.0

See more here how to find out if this is your problem
https://groups.google.com/g/hermes-lite/c/3dapVjw1zgE

[finlay_morrison]

thanks so much