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12 years agoHow to configure an EPCS with a .rbf file?
Hello,
I am using an IP SPI core to communicate with an EPCS128 device and write a specific .rpd file into it. It works fine! However, a .rpd file is too big (16MB), so, I tried to write a .rbf that configures only the blocks of memory to be used (two blocks). To do that, I had erased all blocks of memory to be used and I wrote the .rbf file into EPCS. The write procedure works fine, but this approach was not able to configure the FPGA correctly. I wonder if there is same procedure I am missing to be able to update the FPGA through a .rbf file? Thanks in advance.1 Reply
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Its been a while since I played with EPCS, but I recall that you need to be using the .rpd file format, and there is a bit-order change required for programming SPI flash.
I believe this is all discussed in the SRunner documentation. https://www.altera.com/download/legacy/srunner/dnl-srunner.html Cheers, Dave