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Altera_Forum
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9 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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9 years ago

I'd hope it overrides any specifics the programmer gleans from the .jic file. The help on is certainly suggests so:

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Option: --erase_all

Unified flash programmer option

Erase the entire flash before/instead of programming it.

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The .jic file contains details of the FLASH device's sector size and count. The programmer isn't going to know that any other way, which implies it does not use a device bulk erase command, but erases it sector by sector. Shame if that's the case.

Cheers,

Alex