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15 years ago

SFL for loading EPCS

Hello, I have several questions before designing a new board with cyclone device and I'll be happy if you could help with this issue. I would like to configure cyclone III EPCS via JTAG, the...
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15 years ago

As far as I see, there's no solution from Altera that can access a user EPCS programmer inside the master FPGA by the Quartus programmer. In my view, a JTAG chain containing both FPGAs would be the most simple Altera programmer conformant solution.

P.S.: Using a single EPCS device for both FPGA according to Device Manual Figure 9.4 would be another option, requires however merging of the configuration files.