Preparing environment for production department

Hi Pszemol,

There is a "Serial FlashLoader Whitepaper" that describes how to program an Active Serial Device over a JTAG chain connected to Cyclone (and now Cyclone II) devices. The Cyclone II handbook makes a reference to the Serial FlashLoader, but I cannot find it on Altera.com.

Basically, the Serial FlashLoader bridges the JTAG interface to the Active Serial interface with a special sof file. Once the Cyclone device is loaded with this file, you can program the EPCSx device via JTAG (connection to Cyclone). Since this is a special design, the user design you have will be erased.

This could work well in a production environment, but in an embedded environment you may run into some trouble.

I can send you the whitepaper if you are interested.

-Terry