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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

Unable to Program EPCS16 in system

I recently designed and put together my first FPGA board. I can configure the FPGA over JTAG fine, but the EEPROM seems out of reach. If I use the USB-Blaster in AS mode, it fails to get the device...
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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

Fixed it. It was the protection diodes. They were in backwards (idiot). The EEPROM now programs correctly both with a .jic file and a .pof file using the appropriate header for each.