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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

I managed to read back the programming file using a ByteBlaster. Haven't used the MasterBlaster.

I seem to remember reading that you need the parallel programmer to perform a read back operation. I could be wrong about that though.