Flash EPC64, slow to program

Hello,

We use on our board EPC64 flashes to store the pof

file for the stratix 2.

This take about 10 minutes to upload the pof;

This is slow.

When the sof is uploaded with the same usb blaster, it takes 5 seconds,

so clearly the flash is the limiting factor.

As we will move to stratix 3 which are two times bigger, I expect bigger pofs as well,

and I guess that programming the flash will take ages.

Is Altera aware of this problem, and will they propose an equivalent to the EPC64 (easy to integrate) but much faster ?