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16 years ago

Help with EPCS1 compressed data

Hi, I would like to save money and use the EPCS1 as my configuration device. I compiled my code and I noticed that the size of the pof file was 131272 bytes. I am targeting an EPCS1 device in t...
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16 years ago

did you get the pof size from the windows? the pof file actually contains some header and footer information that is why it seems larger than the actual EPCS size. However these information won't be programmed into the EPCS. Besides, if the data exceeds the actual flash size, the Quartus convert programming file won't allow the generation of the pof file.