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19 years ago

Cyclone II Serial Config

I'm having a rather odd problem and I was wondering whether anyone else has experienced it. I'm using an M25P40 serial prom with an EP2C20. Standard setup, in fact we reused the schematics fro...
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19 years ago

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Has anybody experiences in using ordinary serial flashes with CYC III instead of EPCS devices?

Further question:

Is it possible to program a ST M25PXX with the SF-Loader tool from altera over JTAG of the FPGA?

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I think there should be no problem, with Cyclone III. But I think you'll have to test it.

Further answer:

Yes it works, with JTAG (using Cyc II here). The silicon ID reported by Quartus programmer for M25PXX is the same, as the silicon ID for the EPCS device with the same size.

Regards

Christian