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NKuma51
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6 years ago

I'm not able to program the external flash device (which stores the FPGA configuration programming file) with the FPGA programming file (.jic file) using USB blaster II, JTAG and Quartus Prime standard edition 16.1.2 software.

Note that I'm not using the intel/altera recommended external flash device in my project, I m using something similar from different manufacturer. ​Is instantiating the Serial Flash Loader IP inside...
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ShafiqY_Intel
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6 years ago

Hi NKumar51,

Instantiate the Serial Flash Loader IP is not mandatory IF you not accessing the flash (write, read or erase some portion of the flash).

Yes, you no need to worries about instantiating the serial flash loader IP if you just do normal programming jic file.

Thanks.