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Altera_Forum
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15 years ago

Use Max+Plus to load program from PLD?

Hello, I have a PLD that has a program loaded onto it, and the code has been lost. Is it possible to use Max+Plus to load the vhdl code from the chip so that the code can be used to program other PL...
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15 years ago

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I have the .pof file.

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If you have a working board, then you should be able to use Quartus to verify that this .pof file is the one currently burned into a working board.

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I would rewrite the code but the problem is that it was written 18 years ago by someone else. I'm just the middleman in this whole thing so I'm not even sure what the code does.

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Right, so its really up to you how important having the source code it. You could arguably consider the PLD to be a chip. If it does what you want, then you're done.

If however you have to change functionality, then you'll have to rewrite the code.

Cheers,

Dave