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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

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

You don't seem to have the flash loader. Did you select Mode: "Active Serial x4" in the convert programming files dialog? Also, under Advanced... select both "Disable EPCS/EPCQ ID check" and "Disable AS mode CONF_DONE error check", these should already be checked by default. Back on the main dialog, highlight "SOF Data" before clicking "Add file..."

Note that the setting EPCQ256 works even for a micron quad spi serial flash.