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8 years ago

Compiling for EPM7128ATC

I need to compile a design for an EPM7128ATC100. It seems, though, that Altera has tried to erase MAX7000A from history, or something, because according to my own research, the only direct solution i...
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8 years ago

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Sarcasm won't earn you much credibility here...

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I wasn't trying. And FYI : second guessing the word 'need' won't either.

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No - there's no other way.

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You mean : you don't know of any. Which is fine. But choose your words more carefully.

For those looking for the straightforward solution (in the form of old Max+Plus II versions), I just found the older ones (even though Altera does not seem to point to them anywhere on their website) :

ftp://ftp.altera.com/outgoing/release/

Among those I tried of that bunch (7.0, 9.0, 9.3, 10.0), the 9.x versions seem to have MAX7000A support (yay). So if you have the same problem, here's a possible solution if you can handle the idiosyncrasies of Max+Plus II, until someone invents some slight tweak for programming files or Quartus device files to retarget them from MAX7000AE or MAX7000S to MAX7000A.