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16 years ago

Maximum number of devices in JTAG chain with USB Blaster

Hello everyone, I'm designing a new board for a particle physics detector. The board has a 1 Gbit parallel flash chip (CFI) that I have to reprogram in situ. This chip holds LUT data that needs...
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16 years ago

I don't think that the Quartus Programmer supports any kind concurrent programming. Batch programming should be possible by tcl sripting. Generally, you should use the enhanced PFL version (if it fits your MAX II design) because it's considerably faster in programming. The enhanced PFL utilizes a data fifo and state stae machine to speed up programming, but it's too small for effective concurrent programming, I fear. You would also need to write your own PFL programming tool to achieve it.