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12 years ago

Quartus II and Flex 10KE FPGA Compatibility?

Hi, I have Quartus II V12.1 installed and a FPGA board with an Altera Flex 10KE, part number: EPF10K100EQC240-2. I want to be able to read the code that has been written onto this FPGA. I hav...
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12 years ago

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In general, the FPGA does not contain the programmed code, the configuration source does. If the configuration source is an EPC2 device, then you'd better hope it is in the JTAG chain, otherwise you cannot read it. The configuration source might also be a microcontroller or CPLD. Without seeing your board, we have no idea. Hopefully you have a schematic :)

Cheers,

Dave

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Right now, I have Quartus II V9.0 installed. It does support my Flex 10KE FPGA. In response to Dave's quote, on the board there is an Altera EPC2LI20. I do have a JTAG connector to USB blaster to USB to computer.

How would I pull the information from the EPC2 using Quartus?