Hello Gurus, Please am new in fpga devices. I own CoreEP4CE6 fpga board. Anytime I upload my program on it, it works fine but lose the program when power goes off. please is there a way to permanently keep the program on it?

​Your board probably doesn's support direct programming. The dev kit vendor should provide some guides on this. I have not done this in awhile, but most eeproms can be programmed using JTAG indirect mode which works just as well imo. The fpga configuration must have a JTAG programmer IP on it so the programmer can access the EEPROM chip from JTAG. Its sounds harder than it is. As I rember it, set the programmer to JTAG, clear any devices from programmer list, then add the POF file to the JTAG.

Quartus has a bunch of pre built SOF files for every device which will include the JTAG IP megafunction for programming purposes only. It has no other function.

So programmer will add the SOF and POF to the programmer list. So the process is, 1st program the SOF to get JTAG IP in the FPGA, then 2nd item should be a EEPROM device which will program the POF.

If the FPGA already has been programmed with a SOF that as the JTAG IP in it, then JTAG auto detecting button will show both the FPGA device and a EEPROM device listed as duaghter device EEPROM can be programed directly.