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14 years ago

Config compression makes no difference

I ran my Cyclone 3 design with and without compressed config file generation & in both cases the .sof file came out to be 350KB. No change with compression. Did I miss some Quartus setti...
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14 years ago

*.sof files are never compressed, because compression isn't available for JTAG configuration download. Compression is used for *.rbf, *.pof or e.g. indirect JTAG programming files (*.jic). If you generate files with the programming file conversion tool, compression need to be enabled in the tool, the compression state of the input files doesn't matter.