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17 years ago

Configuration Files

I recently inherited a design that uses a custom VHDL module on a MAXII to read a configuration from from flash, and program a Cyclone II. Before it loads the image, it reads a timestamp and an...
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17 years ago

I don't expect generating a timestamp to be much of a problem. I'm more worried about inserting it into a binary image. I realize I could just create a script to make my own custom binary with a header that contains some information like the length of the image and a timestamp, but I'd like to know if something like that already exists.

Maybe the .pof already contains this information. I don't know much about the file format. Is there a good description of it anywhere?