Help with Programming and Simulation

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Problems Programming Your Board

A common scenario is when learners come to program the DE-0 Nano board, and the USB Blaster hardware is not available.

1. Ensure your DE-0 Nano is connected to the host PC via the provided USB Cable
2. Ensure the USB-Blaster driver is installed. See the following video for details

https://plymouth.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=3ec7854f-f2cb-4462-aea3-aa0e00e65592

Problems Simulating

Students sometimes encounter problems with vector waveform files. This is usually accompanied with red error messages all over the screen!

1. Does your project (or any of the files in your project) contain spaces? If so, you need to ensure this is not the case.
2. Have you told Quartus where ModelSim ASE is installed? If not, see the following video.

https://plymouth.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=54b6446b-db8d-4292-826a-aa0e00e70e21