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14 years ago

how to automatically program using the usb blaster?

Hi, we are working with altera device that we need to program each time we power the board and it done alot and each time we need to program using the altera blaster program ,open, select file (th...
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14 years ago

Have you tried using the command line programmer?

If you have one device on your chain then the command is something like: 

quartus_pgm -m jtag -o p;<yourfile>.pof
On Linux you'll need to escape the semicolon.

If you have more than one cable available or more than one device on the cable then it gets a bit more complex but the command line programmer can handle these cases.