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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

Why do .SOF files sometimes get made instead of .POF? How can I force a .POF?

I am still learning Quartus II 12 and I'm building simple designs, like 4 inputs that get and-ed and or-ed and then output on Cyclone II devices. Most of the time Quartus makes a .pof, but sometimes ...
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13 years ago

Well I'm back again. Once again I have made a project that does not produce a .pof file, only .sof.

I tried my solution from last time and it didn't work.

I then copied, line for line, the .qsf file from a working project. It did not work.

Is there an undocumented setting to turn POF generation on and off? If so, can someone please give me a hint as to where to find it? Thanks.