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15 years ago

Automated RPD file generation?

I'm using Quartus II v10.0 web edition. My board has a microcontroller on it and I have developed a boot loader to flash the EPCS device from a RPD file sent to it through a LAN. All works very we...
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15 years ago

Ok. the programming files configuration does not offer "raw programming data" but it does have "raw binary file" and intel hex.

I've found that if I burn the RBF file directly to the EPCS device, it seems to work. But for some reason the RPD file contains a lot of data way beyond the point where the RBF file ends, and they're only similar at the beginning.

Is burning the RBF as is to the EPCS device in any way worse than using a RPD file?