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9 years ago

Cyclone VE starts config from N25Q then fails midstream

I have a design that I want to use the Micron N25Q128 flash in, so to test it I bought the DE0-CV board from Terasic (comes with the Spansion 64Mb serial) and swapped the serial flash parts out. Ha...
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9 years ago

I don't recall I'm afraid. The fact I don't tells me, the likelihood is, that it wasn't an issue.

Our final solution would have programmed the serial flash using a .jic file. How are you programming yours? I don't recall needing to disable any device checking when using a .jic, only when programming via Nios - which does have problems when using devices that aren't supported by the Nios flash programmer. There is a work around. However, it sounds like you are able to program your image in - something you wouldn't be able to do if this was the issue.

Cheers,

Alex