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12 years ago

Need some quick advice and direction on FPGA uses for quadcopters

My Altera Cyclone IV has been an awesome education board. However, every-time power is shut off I lose my program. I was just curious if their are any FPGA's out there that don't lose their program w...
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12 years ago

What u're doing to erase it is powering off the circuit. This kits have a USB-Blaster programmer built-in the board. From Quartus, when you start the programmer windows, it appears in the right top corner the "mode" of programming. Probably u selected "JTAG" mode. In this mode you lost the configuration when you power off the circuit.

Try to select "Active Serial". A pop-up window tell you that the programming file extension ( .sof ) isn't compatible with JTAG mode. Click Ok and the Add a programming file. Select the one with .pof extension. Programm again. The configuration will be stored in the EPCS memory.