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Chapter 3: Software Installation
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Installing the USB-Blaster Driver
© August 2008
Altera Corporation
Stratix III Development Kit User Guide
Installing the USB-Blaster Driver
The Stratix III development board includes integrated USB-Blaster™ circuitry for
FPGA programming. However, for the host computer and development board to
communicate, you must install the USB-Blaster driver on the host computer.
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To download the USB-Blaster driver, go to the Altera support site at
.
To install it, go to
.
Licensing Considerations
Before using the Quartus II software, you must request a license file from the Altera
webs
and install it on your computer. When you
request a license file, Altera emails you a license.dat file that enables the software.
To license the Quartus II software, you need your network interface card (NIC) ID,
which is a 12-digit hexadecimal number that identifies your computer. Networked (or
floating-node) licensing requires a NIC ID or server host ID. When obtaining a license
file for network licensing, use the NIC ID from the computer that issues the Quartus II
licenses to distributed users over a network. You can find the NIC ID for your card by
typing ipconfig/all at a command prompt. Your NIC ID is the number on the
physical address line, without the dashes.
To obtain a license, perform the following steps.
1. Go to the Altera website at
2. Under Development Kit Licenses Request, click Licenses for RoHS-Compliant
Kits
.
3. Follow the on-screen instructions to request your license. You will receive a license
file through email.
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Before installing your license, close the following software if it is running
on your computer:
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Quartus II software
■
MAX+PLUS
®
II software
■
LeonardoSpectrum
™
synthesis tool
■
Synplify software
■
ModelSim
®
simulator
■
Precision RTL Synthesis Software
4. To install your license, refer to the Specifying the License File section in the
included with the kit.