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20 years ago

Configuration bombs at power up

I have a working design up and running in Quartus 5.0 SP1. I programmed a couple of boards with the image last week. They have been sitting on my test stand cranking away. In the mean time, I...
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20 years ago

I believe when using the EPC16 config device, you should specify the use of a compressed image in the options for each page in the Convert Programming Files tool. The issue really is that there are 2 different compression schemes, one that is in the FPGA itself (EG. CycloneII / StratixII), and another where the EPC16 itself does the decompression. The option you checked may refer to the first compression scheme which i don't believe is supported in the EPC16 device.

--dalon