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16 years ago

Cyclone III Configuration Corrupts !..

Hi everybody! I have a problem with my new cyclone III board design. I use EPCS16 for programming CycloneIII (EP3C25E144C8N) FPGA. Fpga starts configuration but can't finish it. in th...
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16 years ago

Are you programming the EPCS device with the Quartus programmer? Do you have JTAG access to the FPGA? If so, can you program the FPGA via JTAG? Have you checked the signals between the FPGA and EPCS device (DCLK, DATA) for signal integrity issues?

There is an option in Quartus Settings/Device and Pin Options.../General Tab called "Auto-restart configuration after error". If you uncheck this option does it just try to configure once per power cycle?