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15 years ago

Parallel Flash Loader issues

Hi all, on a custom board we are using PFL (implemented in a MAX II device) to configure a single Stratix II GX device using FPP. The flash memory (S29GL064N) holds 2 firmware images, user and ...
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15 years ago

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Does this mean that I cannot use a HEXOUT file directly to update the flash content ?

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I think you can, if you know, what to write to the first four bytes.

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I meant that the bitstreams are NOT compressed.

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I didn't think about the details of your post. Obviously, you don't manage to write an image identical to the Quartus programmer, and apparently, it has to do with compression (at least among other issues).