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Altera_Forum
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21 years ago

Can I open a file for reading thru the JTAG link?

Hi all, For a test I want to download the content of a file onto RAM. Is it possible? If yes, what file path should I use? Regards, Kwok
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21 years ago

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We are using cyclone device, but I don&#39;t know if we use the compress config generation (I&#39;m not a HW engineer).[/b]

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It is an option during configuration file generation. You can select in the Quartus design environment. The file is approx 1/3 of the original (but I think it depends highly on the content of the logic).

Normally this file comes as a IntelHex, but you can select raw binary also. I don&#39;t know if the IntelHex format has a checksum in the file format, this could also be handy.

Stefaan