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Honored ContributorThanks FvM. For some reason I started to get fatal errors (i.e. Quartus would crash) using SP2, so I did a bunch of un-installing and re-installing, trial and error, and settled on 9.1 with no service packs. I was then at the point where I could compile wiht no issues and program thru JTAG, but not still not see the EPCS.
I instantiated the SFL thru the Megawizard and was given the choice to disable the ASMI features, and in doing so resulted in a top level block with just the noe_in input. I tied this low, tried to compile and got an error about the programming pins being used twice (yeah!) so deleted those io ports I had added, recompiled and viola! I converted the .sof to a .jif, programmed the cycloneIII first using the .sof, then auto-detected the chain and low and behold it saw the EPCS(!), so added the appropriate programming files, reprogrammed, and am now able to boot form the EPCS device. I read thru a bunch of Altera documents as well as did hours of searching on teh web. Is this documented anywhere? Thanks again!!!
