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RHI
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5 years ago

Programming via rbf file stopped working

A few years ago we developed a bootloader application for Cyclone V E that receives an application.rbf file via UART (in NIOS II) and then writes the data into the EPCQ32 flash device for. It then sw...
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5 years ago

On point 3,4 and 5 of the post, the difference is due to generating the pof files either as 1-bit passive or 4-bit passive configuration. Also using the 4-bit passive configuration generating pof files has the exact same result as generating a rbf file except that the pof file has an extra header and footer and holds the entire memory content.

The question still stands, why does the original rbf file not work?