EPCS16 equivalent that works at 2.5V?

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Altera probably want to sell you their expensive chips, rather than you using off the shelf cheaper parts.

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I'm not sure, it was an Altera FAE who told me the EPCS parts were ST parts re-branded!

This machine only has QII 11.0 installed. I've had a look in the bin directory, there's a pgm_parts.txt file with

entries for the EPCS16 but the values associated with it don't look like part IDs etc.

Nial.

Unfortunately, 'pgm_prts.txt' doesn't do what we want. This simply specifies a some basic parameters and licensing related to the parts your particular installations can work with.

Cheers,

Alex

PS. And yes, EPCS parts are simply re-badged serial FLASH parts. I think Altera has deals with ST and others...

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I'm not sure, it was an Altera FAE who told me the EPCS parts were ST parts re-branded!

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That's true, but the EPCS16 equivalent is M25P16, not M25PX16. The latter has beside 2.5V capability a different organization and other features.

The annoying point is that Altera is promoting 2.5V I/O voltage since years but didn't yet manage to provide 2.5V compatible serial flash devices in the lower MBit ranges.

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That's true, but the EPCS16 equivalent is M25P16, not M25PX16. The latter has beside 2.5V capability a different organization and other features.

The annoying point is that Altera is promoting 2.5V I/O voltage since years but didn't yet manage to provide 2.5V compatible serial flash devices in the lower MBit ranges.

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So as far as you are aware there currently isn't a 2.5V EPCS16 equivalent? I can stick with my separate voltage regulator (it's only ~$0.40) but it would have been nice to have just the config prom.

ALTERA, get your collective fingers out and implement a work round.

Thanks all for your input.

Nial.

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The obvious workaround would be to support M25PX16 by Quartus programmer.

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Exactly!

Is it worth a few of us raising simultaneous service requests?

I'll do one now....

SR 11029669

Can anyone else interested please also submit a request so they get the message?

Nial.

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Exactly!

Is it worth a few of us raising simultaneous service requests?

I'll do one now....

SR 11029669

Can anyone else interested please also submit a request so they get the message?

Nial.

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I'm afraid the output of this SR is that they've confirmed they will not support the M25PX16 .

So it doesn't look like there is a 2.5V EPCS16 equivalent that we can use.

I wonder what Xilinx have?

Nial