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15 years ago

Remote update EPCS file format?(rpd or rbf)

I have a Cyclone III EP3C5 design that uses an EPCS4 device in AS mode for remote system update. my question: what file format am I supposed to use when downloading a new application configuration i...
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15 years ago

If you are using srunner software then rpd is the obvious choice. But I wrote my own drivers from scratch and just used the rbf file because it was lying around on the disk. And yes, I had to bit reverse the bytes for use by the altera altasmi_parallel megafunction. Watch that one!

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