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8 years ago

Quartus II Programmer - Command Line

Hi, Using the Quartus II Programmer command line (quartus_pgm app) to program a serial flash device using the USB ByteBlaster and want to first erase the full flash device, so planning to use -era...
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8 years ago

The programming option you've specified in Method 1 is redundant. I'm not sure of the value of the -initcfg in method 2 either, unless you're not intending to perform any power cycling following reprogramming - which is fair enough. However, both commands look fine to me.

Personally, I'd separate out erasing and reprogramming - as suggested by Method 1. However, the programmer does support doing multiple operations and generally gets them in the right order...

Cheers,

Alex