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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

How to determine the length of the RBF file

Hi, When we generate the RBF file from the .sof file with compression enabled using the convert programming files option in Quartus II , is the length of the RBF file embedded into the file...
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16 years ago

I am curious as to why you care. Using passive serial we just send data until we get conf_done (we are reading an image from flash and have not recorded the file size) or nSTATUS indicates an error. When we write the RBF file to flash, we just write the whole file.

By the way, when I tried converting an SOF to RBF, I did not get a compressed file.