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Altera_Forum
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21 years agoHow to convert from .pof to binary?
Hi all, I've manged to combine the .sof and my boot-loader into .pof file (via the convert file option in quartus) - and everything is good. However, for remote updates I'd like to...
Altera_Forum
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21 years ago> I have converted the .sof to a .rbf and written it to the EPCS device.
> But the FPGA will not boot? This won't work ... the contents of an rbf and what goes into the epcs device are not the same ... almost the same ... but they're not identical :-( As I recall, the data packet contents in the pof has what you want ... the magic "register" bits et. al. I have some old code laying around somewhere that parses pof/sof and can extract the necessary bits ... if I can find it, I'll post it. Regards, --Scott