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12 years ago

Download Bitstream to Cyclone V by using the FPGA manager

Hi, I like to upload the soc_system.sof via the FPGA manager. I use the source code of the U-Boot. I have ported it to VxWorks. I use the Altera Evaluation Board REV B. . Before I begin to...
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12 years ago

Problem solved!

The problem was the fpga images being generated by Quartus. I was using the menu setting assignments->Device->Device and Pin Options to set quartus to produce .rbf files as an output. The files produced by quartus do not work.

To produce a working .rbf file I used a script called quartus_rbf to convert the .sof to .rbf. It can be found in altera/13.0sp1/quartus/bin.