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15 years ago

cyclone 3 starter kit. permanent configuration rom

Is there a way to permanently program a jic file (or other) to the cyclone 3 starter kit, or does it only use sof files download over the usb/blaster interface? aka It would be nice to be able to do ...
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15 years ago

I presume you have the EP3C25 starter board, which is hardwired for an active parallel configuration (look at MSEL pins). So you can possibly boot from the parallel flash (Intel 64Mbytes?).

I think you need to program it using the .pof file; anyway you can generate the correct file using the file conversion function available in Quartus.

I have a different dev board and I always used serial configuration, so I can't help you more than this.

Cris