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20 years ago

Flash programmer and non CFI flash

Hi to all, does anyone knows if it's possible to use the flash programmer to program a non CFI flash memory?
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20 years ago

The flash programmer only supports EPCS serial configuration EEPROMs and CFI flash memory. The flash programmer code, best I can tell, is not open-source, preventing support of other types of flash.

I've been down this road with the EPC16; we could only use the Quartus II programmer to program it.

It would be nice if they released the source for the slave programmer (the one that gets loaded on the Altera by the flash programmer), but I'm not holding my breath.