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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

Thanks for the feedback.

We are using the programming in production as part of automated board test systems, and I am wondering the value of using blank check when programming. I have seen one or two blank check errors, and as I understand it, when a JTAG Indirect Configuration (.jic) file is assigned to the flash device in the Quartus II programmer, only the region of the flash that contains data in the .jic file is erased. So, is it possible there is data outside of this area that could be failing for the blank check? Because if I do the erase_all on this board, it will then not fail the blank check.