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12 years ago

Loading .rbf file into EPCS16 for remote configuration of FPGA.

Hi, I have prepared a qsys design(Say in quartus_project_a) for writing and reading bytes with EPCS16 using SPI protocol(I am using EP3C25F25C68 FPGA) and it is working properly. Now, I want t...
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12 years ago

Why don't you use JTAG indirect programming method to load the FPGA image to EPCS device? It's the native programming method supported by Quartus.

Programming through SPI, e.g. by an embedded processor is possible, but requires understanding of sending flash memory commands, different SPI bit order for commands and configuration data etc.