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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

Quartus 9.1 SP2 WARNING!!!!!

I've opened up an SR for this, but in the meantime, don't install SP2 if you need to use the flash programmer to program an EPCS with or without NIOS. This was specifically on a cyclone II, but it pr...
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16 years ago

I have a DE2-70 board (2C70) with an EPCS64 and as expected, 9.1sp2 doesn't generate usable .pof files. The board doesn't successfully load its configuration on power-on.

I just tried using sof2flash/elf2flash from Quartus 10 and it seems to behave exactly the same as 9.1sp2 in terms of flash programming. I can't use Quartus 10 completely to compile my design, it introduces a whole pile of other issues I never had with previous versions. *LOTS* of things break in 10.

Is this by-request-only patch available for 9.1sp2 on Linux (full subscription edition)? Using the Windows version of Quartus is not an option for me.