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13 years ago

Extract program from a MAX3128 with Quartus II and a USB Blaster

Hi, My company has assigned to me and old project of developing a board of I/Os. I have some prototypes to work with, but all the info and the programming of the pics is lost. I am tryi...
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13 years ago

Hi,

the toolchain is straight Forward (one directional):

Program Code => Compiler => programmer object file (pof)

There is no reverse direction available, this is reverse engineering...

And reverse engineering is normally someting not done by the design owner (as the design owner has the code (normally); reverse engineering is a task "assigned" to competing (or illegal copying IP) companpies and is thus not officially supported.

There are some companies specialised on this, but it's no cheap stuff AFAIK.

I know, you don't have the code anymore, thus if you need more than 1:1 copy... Good luck...