I'm using Altera's "Cyclone II Starter Kit", and while the board seems to work fine, I can't figure out one of the bundled utility programs.
I installed the Cyclone II Starter Kit CD on my Windows/XP machine. I'm able to use Quartus II 7.1 (web) to compile and then download projects to the board -- That works fine.
However, I cannot get the "Control Panel - Starter II Kit" application to work. I launch it, and the application window comes up. It appears to work fine -- I can 'open USB' connection to my board, then click on the various tabs (sram, sdram, led, etc.) and toggle the controls. However, when I click 'set' on anything, nothing happens. I see the blue-light on my Kit board flicker momentarily, so it's getting some kind of traffic from the PC. But otherwise, nothing happens.
For example, I tried the 'SRAM' tab, and wrote several unique values (0x0123, 0x4567) to the SRAM at address 0x00 and 0x01. But, when I read them back, they always come back 0x0000. The Control Panel's built-in self-test also fails on the sdram, sram, and flash.
What am I doing wrong? I tried toggling the RUN/PROG switch (SW12) back and forth, then cycling power to the board. With either position, Control Panel applet still doesn't work.