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BSui
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7 years ago

Programming .jic to S25FL128S FLASH with Cyclone 10 LP device

At first, there was no problem when I downloaded my .jic file to S25FL128S. However, after operating the Flash through "Generic Serial Flash Interface Intel FPGA IP Core" (including writing and read...
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7 years ago

I very much doubt (I don't know this to be the case) that the programmer will write to protected sectors. If, as you suggest, you've played with the sector protection then I suggest, in the first instance, you remove this. Load the FPGA via JTAG and unlock it. Then retry.

Cheers,

Alex

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    7 years ago

    Hi Alex,

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    Thanks for your reply. It's true that the Quartus programmer will fail to erase if the Serial Flash is being protected, and I've tried to unprotect the entire Flash, however it still did not work. I wonder if this is related with some special characteristics of S25FL128S.

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    Thanks,

    Leo