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14 years ago

Extract programming file from Altera EPLD

I am looking to extract the *.pof file from a MAX7000 series EPLD (EPM7256SRC208-7). I am working on an old project and over the course of time we appear to have misplaced the archived program...
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14 years ago

The Quartus software manual tells that the "examine" (read configuration) function isn't available for MAX7000S. I think, this means, that readback isn't supported by the JTAG interface. It may be still possible with a parallel programmer.