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11 years ago

SIII hw + sftw EPCQ256 13.1

Hi, I am attempting (several ways) to use hw/sftw on EPCQ256 with Stratix III as follows. o If I convert the SOF to a JIC and program the EPCQ256 with quartus programmer => then power...
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11 years ago

Looking closer at srec (.flash) format it becomes clear that the last two nibbles are a checksum and that the primary difference is that bytes 0-31 are 0xff with sof2flash output, wheras only bytes 0 through 30 are 0xff in the JIC read back as a flash file.