Is it possible to build a Programmer Object File(.pof) using a time limited SRAM object file(.sof)

Hi,

Thank you for responding. I found from this article that a time limited sof file is not allowed to be converted to pof. If the sof is not time limited by OpenCore plus, i think it should.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/programmable/quartushelp/13.0/mergedProjects/msgs/msgs/wpgmio_can_not_convert_time_limited_sof.htm

Here is what i did.

I am using a Max10 Evaluation Board for this.,

-Using Quartus Prime Lite, I created a project and under it I designed a qsys file using a Nios2 Processor, an On-chip Flash Memory, a JTAG UART, and some other peripherals, set their parameters and wired them accordingly.

-created a brd file to interface the qsys symbol to i/o pins

-compiled the project, which didn't have critical errors albeit with timing warnings. This is where the time limited sof file get produced, i think.

-assigned these pins to actual physical pins for clock and reset

-after these, using nios2 SBT for eclipse, i generated the BSP configurations and built the project

-then i also built the mem_init_generate files for the memory initialization hex files.

-then, in quartus prime lite, i ran the Convert Programmer file tools, and configured the tool as described earlier.

as for attaching the sof file, i tried to attach it by using the add file button which was the only button enabled.

i attached it but nothing got attached.

after seeing the link about time limited sof, i guess, it won't get attached. however, i dont have a non-time limited sof to check otherwise.