Let's Try Agilex™ 3 FPGA - 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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