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Waghlis
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2 years ago

Problem extracting the program / current configuration of the Altera Max7000s FPGA on a card.

In wanting to extract the current program / configuration contained in an ALTERA MAX7000S FPGA on a card equipped with a JTAG port, and this for possible use on another FPGA, I did not find any indic...
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WZ2
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2 years ago

Yeah. Max7000 is too old to be supported by Quartus 13


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_AK6DN_
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2 years ago

True, MAX7000 is not supported in QuartusII 13.0sp1, but the OP referred to MAX7000S which IS supported.

However, that Quartus version does NOT support reading the programmed image out of the device.

Even Quartus versions as far back as 6.1 (which I still have) do not support reading the MAX 7K series parts.

Third party programmer is the only option to attempt to recover an image from a programmed device.