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15 years ago

Partial device AS programming

I want to program 1.4MB compressed sof file into 2MB EPCS16 device by means of Active Serial mode of Quartus Programmer. The point is - I want to program only relevant flash sectors (up to address 16...
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15 years ago

Yes, you are right. The conversion tool always creates a file of full device size. Up to Quartus 9.0, the Quartus programmer uses a chip erase command rather than erasing individual pages. It's been said in the forum, that starting with Q9.1, individual pages are erased, but I'm not aware of the detail implications.