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16 years ago

Problem rebuilding source with new Quartus II

Hello, I recently inherited a project board which has a Stratix II EP2S30F672 FPGA which is booted from an EPC4QC100. Project originally compiled under quartus vers 7. Now when the project is co...
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16 years ago

There may be an archive file. I will try to open that.

I can write the .SOF directly to the FPGA but I will have to change my setup a bit to test that since it is non-volatile. I will try it today.

Can someone explain the bitstream compression settings to me?

There is one in the programmer and two under the device settings it seems.

The Altera explanation seems a bit confusing about which to use. Apparently you dont want to save compressed data AND have the EPC4QC100 set for compression or you end up with doubled compression?

Thanks