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Eugeny_Brychkov
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7 years ago

Can I program active serial device other than Altera's one using Quartus (programmer) through cable?

I am going to replace EPCS16 with W25Q128FVSIG - due to cost and size reasons. I have already successfull programmed W25Q through cable using my own hardware and software and made FPGA configuring fr...
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Eugeny_Brychkov
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7 years ago

>The Quartus programmer should only recognize the configuration flash devices listed in the Convert Programming File tools.

How can I add W25Q128FVSIG device into the device listing of the Convert Programming File tools? I know manufacturer ID, silicon ID and 16-bit capacity ID.

The point is that people should be able to use Quartus II programmer to program W25Q flash as they usually do with EPCS devices.

Edit: my target FPGA device is Cyclone 3, so while Generic Serial Flash Interface is great new feature, it is not supported for this chip family.