Altera USB Blaster driver on Ubuntu 18.04
In this post I will describe how to get your USB/Terasic-Blaster or any other Blaster clone working on Ubuntu 18.04. With little or any changes this will work on many Linux distros. Quartus version I am using is Quartus II 13.0sp1. First thing I suggest adding the /bin folder of Quartus installation directory to $PATH. This way you will get access to jtagd and jtagconfig . jtagd is a daemon that provides the interface between Altera Tools accessing the JTAG chain and the USB-Blaster. If not already running, jtagd will be started automatically when the Quartus II or jtagconfig is run. jtagconfig can be used to list all connected Blasters and devices attached to them. USB driver permissions The Quartus II will use the Linux built-in usb_device drivers. By default, only root has access to these so we must make sure the user is allowed to access them. First create a file in /etc/udev/rules.d named 51-usbblaster.rules and make sure it has read permission for root. su...
