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12 years ago

.jic file procedure for EPCQ256

I saw a previous post commenting that the NIOS flash programmer will not work for the EPCQ devices. Given that, what is the procedure creating a .jic file that I can blow into the EPCQ256 for Active...
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12 years ago

The FPGA is Arria V series. The configuration device is an EPCQ. However, the flash controllers only seem to communicate in EPCS/EPCQx1 mode in any of the Nios cores.

Nominally, I shouldn't *need* the .jic file. I should be able to use the flash programmer to write the EPCQ device. Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to work either.