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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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Nooraini_Y_Intel
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7 years ago

Hi Ebryc,

Since you are using Cyclone III device, I'm assuming your are using very old Quartus II version (such as v13.1 or lower). You are right about Generic Serial Flash Interface IP is not supported in mature FPGA and older Quartus version. Unfortunately, there are no setting in the Quartus tools allowing user to simply add any non-Intel vendor QSPI/SPI flash device. Perhaps, you may try to use the standalone Quartus Programmer v18.1 tools which include the Convert Programming File utilities. You can refer to the following link to download the standalone Quartus Programmer v18.1 tools:

http://fpgasoftware.intel.com/18.1/?edition=standard&platform=windows&download_manager=dlm3&product=qprogrammer#tabs-4

The standalone Quartus Programmer v18.1 tools has been update to program some other QSPI flash device such as EPCQA. Micron and Macronix. You can try to test if the Quartus Programmer v18.1 tools is able to program the .jic/pof file into W25Q128FVSIG device or not. If the Quartus Programmer v18.1 tool still unable to recognize silicon ID W25Q128FVSIG device, at this point, please use your own hardware+software tools to program the W25Q128FVSIG.

Regards,

Nooraini