Is there a quicker way to flash new firmware on the Stratix GX 5 Dev kit board?

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the response. To answer your first question, I am using the USB-Blaster II and programming the FPGA directly is fairly quick. The issue I have is I'd have to keep programming the FPGA with the firmware every time I power off the device. Once I have a mature enough firmware, I'd rather program the flash so the board auto-loads the code on power up. I'm lazy...what can I say :)

I'm not currently in my lab to check for the flash programming algorithm's messages, but I will check it once I'm in the lab again. If I remember correctly, the flash files are fairly large, about 50-80 MB in size, but still for a USB interface I'd expect it should be able to transfer over the bus quicker than 20 minutes. I know that's not the only thing going on, but still I'd expect it to be a few minutes...not 20-30 minutes.

My main beef with the current programming the flash steps is having to use a command shell and having to type out those nasty commands. I would have thought Altera would have something like Xilinx's Impact program which is a GUI that's fairly intuitive. Nothing about the command shell is intuitive (at least to me). Is there another way to program the flash on the dev board besides using the command shell (like from the Quartus GUI)?

Thanks for the assist!

Jason