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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

Programming multiple devices

Hi,

I have a board that is set up for In-System programming using the USB blaster. It contains two EP3C16Q240's and a single EPCS16 for programming the devices. I followed all of the instructions in the Cyclone III manual and configured the programming chain as a master/slave AS device using the MSEL pins. My question is how do I program the EPCS16 if I have two different programming files (for the two FPGA's)? There does not seem to be a way to add two pof files into a single EPCS device using the Altera programmer.

I am sure I am missing something simple here

Any help will be appreciated

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    Altera_Forum
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    12 years ago

    You need to create a multi-sof POF file. to program the EPCS.

    In quartus go File->Convert Programming File

    Here you can create POF file and add your master and slave SOF files to the stream.

    Pete
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    Altera_Forum
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    12 years ago

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    You need to create a multi-sof POF file. to program the EPCS.

    In quartus go File->Convert Programming File

    Here you can create POF file and add your master and slave SOF files to the stream.

    Pete

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    Thanks for your help Pete. I was able to program the EPCS