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10 years ago

How do I use N25Q512 Quad-SPI Flash, instead of ECPQ512?

I have a board designed to boot the Cyclone V FPGA from AS Flash, using a N25Q512A13G1240E chip instead of Altera's EPCQ512. (NB: This is a product, not a dev-kit) However, in Quartus Prime, th...
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10 years ago

The Quad SPI flash chip isn't on the JTAG chain. You need to follow the instructions for programming a quad SPI chip, not a JTAG based chip. There are some app notes as well as a section in the Altera programmer manual that explain how this works.