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14 years ago

PS Configuration Using a MAX II Device

Altera has a white paper on how to use a MAX device to configure your FPGA in FPP, PS, PPA and Remote System Upgrade modes. http://www.altera.com/literature/wp/wp_max_flash.pdf This white ...
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13 years ago

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Hello,

I understand your motivation. But besides modifying the MAX II PFL design, you'll most likely need to write your own virtual JTAG programming tool, because the Quartus programmer only supports parallel flash devices for "attachment". The interface between programmer and PFL is rather low level, directly performing flash programming commands that are different from serial flash commands.

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dear FVM

could we let the FPGA update the configure file by itself？