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15 years ago

Altera Cyclone III - Passive Serial mode

Hi, all. I have a Altera Cyclone III device installed on board. In order to upgrade of FPGA software, I decided to use Passive Serial programming mode. The FPGA image file will be saved in a pe...
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15 years ago

Hello,

for this way of fpga programming you can use .rbf (Raw Binary File) file format.go assignments -> settings -> device and pin options, then in programming files tab check "Raw Binary File (.rbf)" and in configuration tab check "Generate compressed bitstreams". This will generate compressed .rbf file during compilation.

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