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13 years ago

Stratix IV 530 Dev. PCB factory_recovery mismatch

I inherited this Stratix IV 530 Dev. board which I can not program the CFI FLASH. I am following the guide but there is a mismatch somewhere. When I try to restore the factory recovery setting of the...
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12 years ago

Hi Dave,

Good news, I finally managed to program the flash with my user_4SGX530_fpga.flash file !!! For my old Stratix -IV board version 90, I think is was one of the very first of its kind, I used the following procedure:

1) Generated the .flash file: sof2flash --input=user_4SGX530_fpga.sof --output=user_4SGX530_fpga.flash --offset=0x02000000 --pfl --optionbit=0x00018000 --programmingmode=PS

2) I configured the flash with the same vintage factory BUP restore_s4gx530_fpga_bup.sof This acts as a platform for the software which actually programs the flash and it must load 100% green or nothing works !

3) I then used the following command: nios2-flash-programmer --base=0x08000000 --debug --dualdie user_4SGX530_fpga.flash

Your suggestion of using --debug --dualdie made the difference ! without it, it just would not work !

Thanks,

S.