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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 into the EPCS16?.rpd or .rbf or else?

Please help.

Thanks a lot in advance

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    I use quartus 9.0,same as you,i just see symbols ,that‘s doesn't matter

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    Then what did you write into EPCS? How did you applied bit-reversal to each byte before writing into EPCS? You mentioned that you used I2C, so you must had some byte to transfer. You can't transfer symbols. I think you might be reading the file in some way and that's why you didn't bother about the contents of the file. How did you do that?

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    i think you make this too complicated,CPU deliver the .rbf file without any change,

    i did bit-reversal in fpga as foll

    assign d_to_E[0] = data_to_EPCS[7];

    assign d_to_E[1] = data_to_EPCS[6];

    assign d_to_E[2] = data_to_EPCS[5];

    assign d_to_E[3] = data_to_EPCS[4];

    assign d_to_E[4] = data_to_EPCS[3];

    assign d_to_E[5] = data_to_EPCS[2];

    assign d_to_E[6] = data_to_EPCS[1];

    assign d_to_E[7] = data_to_EPCS[0];