Let's Try Agilex™ 3 - Recognizing Atum A3 Nano Board from Linux host machine

Introduction

The Terasic Atum A3 Nano board with Agilex 3 used in this series has a USB-Blaster III on board.

• Link to board page:
  • https://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?Language=English&CategoryNo=44&No=1373&PartNo=3#contents

How to recognize the Atum A3 Nano board on a Linux host machine

The driver for Windows will be prompted for installation when installing Quartus Prime, but there is no information available from Altera for Linux host machines at this time (information is only available up to USB-Blaster II). 

• Intel® FPGA Download Cable (formerly USB-Blaster) Driver for Linux*.
  • https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/programmable/support-resources/download/dri-usb-b-lnx.html

We have tested the following settings and were able to recognize the board. We will update this information when we receive official guidance from Altera.

Edited file: /etc/udev/rules.d/51-usbblaster.rules

 # USB Blaster
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTR{idProduct}=="6001", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTR{idProduct}=="6002", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTR{idProduct}=="6003", MODE="0666"

# USB Blaster II
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTR{idProduct}=="6010", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTR{idProduct}=="6810", MODE="0666"

# USB Blaster III
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTR{idProduct}=="6020", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTR{idProduct}=="6022", MODE="0666"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="09fb", ATTR{idProduct}=="6024", MODE="0666"

Now Atum A3 Nano can be recognized by Linux, can't it? We have prepared a variety of Let's Try articles , so please give it a try.

Link to summary page

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