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21 years ago

Quartus Programmer Command-Line Problem

Hello,

I try to configure the FPGA via NiosII Shell (NiosII 1.1) and Quartus Programmer using the following line:

[SOPC Builder]$ quartus_pgm --cable="USB-Blaster [USB-0]" --mode=jtag --operation=p;test.pof

The line looks correct for me but I get an error message:

Error: Programming option string "p" is illegal. Refer to --help for legal programming option formats.

Any idea, why the option p for programming is wrong?!?!?!?

Thanks,

damc

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    Altera_Forum
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    21 years ago

    try this:

    Nios-sof --cable=&#39;USB-Blaster [USB-0]&#39; <path and file name you want to download>

    Make sure to use forward slashes for your path and file name. This will in turn make a call to the Quartus programmer, but make sure you are programming the .sof and not the .pof file.
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    21 years ago

    You&#39;re welcome.

    I think that command is left over from the Nios I days (otherwise it would be called Nios2-sof).
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    21 years ago

    Using nios-sof is often easier.

    But just for reference, I think your problem with the command line is that you put a semicolon into the arguments. Under shells such as bash this is a command separator. If you escape the semicolon with \ or put quotes around that argument then it should work.