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17 years ago

programming and turning off board

More newbie questions. So I have programmed the Cyclone III dev kit board in the first few tutorials. If I turn off the power of the board, is the program still on board? If I press the...
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17 years ago

If you programmed it into flash, it will remain on the board after power is removed, and will come up upon power being applied.

You'll need to convert the SOF programmer file to a POF

(File - Convert Programming Files)

Then, you'll need to attach a flash device to your part in the programmer

(right-click on your cyclone III part, attach flash device)

Finally, attach the POF file to the flash device in your programmer and program it.