MPU Driver Information for Windows XP

Product Discontinuance Notifications

Intel has discontinued the Quartus® II and MAX+PLUS® II Software. More details are available at Quartus® II and MAX+PLUS® II Software product discontinuance notifications and list of discontinued additional software.

You must install the MPU (Master Programming Unit) driver before you can use it to program devices with the MAX+PLUS® II software.

You must have system administration (Administrator) privileges to install the MPU driver.

Driver Installation

  1. Click on the Start menu, and click on Control Panel.
  2. Click the Switch to Classic View link.
  3. Double-click the Add Hardware icon to start the Add Hardware Wizard and click Next to continue.
  4. Select Yes, I have already connected the hardware and click Next.
  5. Select Add a new hardware device in the Installed hardware list, and click Next to continue.
  6. Select Install the hardware that I manually select from a list (Advanced) and click Next to continue.
  7. Select Sound, video and game controllers, and click Next to continue.
  8. Select Have Disk ....
  9. Browse to the win2000.inf file in the \Drivers\win2000 directory of your MAX+PLUS II software installation and click OK.
  10. Click Yes at the Digital Signature Not Found warning dialog box.
  11. Click Continue Anyway when the hardware installation warning appears.
  12. Select Intel® FPGA Programmer, and click Next to continue.
  13. Click Continue Anyway when the hardware installation warning appears.
  14. Click Finish in the Completing the Add/Remove Hardware Wizard window.
  15. Reboot the computer.
  16. Complete your installation by setting up programming hardware

The MPU is not supported by the Quartus® II software.

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