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14 years ago

Bemicro Cyclone III(not SDK) and EPCS16 problems...

Hello, I'm using the 'original' Bemicro kit (not the SDK kit) for a simple project implemented with a state machine in VHDL, so no Nios and no SOPC builder I've never used those. I've been u...
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14 years ago

There are two simple ways to load the SFL IP to your FPGA to access the serial flash through indirect JTAG programming.

- load the default factory image shipped with Quartus sfl_ep3c16.sof

- instantiate the SFL IP in your design after generating the code in MegaWizard 

sfl_inst : sfl PORT MAP (
   noe_in => '0'
);

You additionally need to convert the configuration stream to *.jic with the Quartus conversion tool.