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17 years ago

Programming external memory via FPGA using JTAG

Hi, I have a small serial memory device attached to a CycloneIII that I need to program during production - preferably via JTAG. Are there tools available to pass an image file (not create...
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17 years ago

There are some open source JTAG solutions like:

http://openwince.sourceforge.net/jtag/

Also if anyone's interested, I have a solution for using a large parallel flash device to bootload an Altera (Stratix 3) using an EPM570. This uses the (not very well documented) EPM370's ability to direct part of its JTAG chain to the user programmable part of the array.