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16 years ago

Compressed bit streams???

What's the deal with the compressed bit streams in Quartus? I have "Generate Compressed Bitstreams" option turned on in Settings/Device/Device and Pin Options/Configuration. I have the c...
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16 years ago

The POF file size (the same with *.jic JTAG indirect programming file) is defined by the memory capacity of the selected configuration device. In case of auto selection, Quartus uses the AS device, that's needed for an uncompressed file. The unused part is zero filled. The *.sof file in constrast is never compressed.