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14 years ago

BIN/HEX to POF Convertion

Like many other people I've got a problem because I need to program some MAX7000s devices but only have a Intel HEX file which is not supported by the Quartus Standalone programmer. I've been working...
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9 years ago

The reponse may be too late for you, but maybe others (like me) are interested in this topic, too. Here is what I found out:

For a MAX10 device (10M08SA) the first 12 bytes are

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 40 27 00 01 00

This 32 bit value contains the length of the binary in bits (274000h/8=321536bytes):

__ __ __ __ __ __ 00 40 27 00 __ __