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10 years agowell; you must understand one crucially important thing in electronics industry:
to communicate with things(flash,pc,usb,lan so on), first you need a technology -that so called "know how" which is kept in secret. these know hows boil money for somebody's pocket, so why should anyone put such a thing in the internet for free... it would be basically depreciation of a valuable thing because every passer-by would be able to do it. that's why companies pay thousands to schools and requalification of their employees; this is called acquisition of new technology and is always a painful process in sense of money. everyone struggles to survive. so, asking a communication protocol file for free is just ridiculous. documentations are written in such way that it would more likely make you forget everything you knew, -instead to teach something new :) . altera's QSPI flash protocol was quite easy to grab... but they are small like 16MB small and cost ~ 7$ .CFI is only documentation i have ever seen which was really nicely described you'l find it in almost any of Flash datasheets.so yes, you are before a brick wall this is a correct conclusion, here you have to choose; either you wrestle the goliath, or find some smart way around.microcontrollers are yesterday's technology. that is why i assume you'l more likely find something valuable there, than with the FPGAs. by the way you posted this a while ago and it already has 1000 views lol... looks like you started up a very actual question :))