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17 years ago

defining pinout in Cyclone3 to EPCS

hi, i'm using in Cyclone 3. In Quartus 8 manual is written "If you use a Cyclone3 device, you must connect wires to EPCS device mannually". I defined in my top entity 4 signals to epcs controller,...
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17 years ago

I guess, you refering to this statement in QuartusHandbook

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Board-Level Design for an EPCS Device

You must connect the EPCS device to the FPGA as described in the Altera

Configuration Handbook. No other connections are necessary.

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It's about hardware design, not Quartus settings. An AS configuration device uses dedicated resources and needs no entries in Assignment Editor or Pin Planner. Just select AS configuration scheme in Device Options.