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8 years ago

quartus_pgm: Programming option E is illegal

Hello to everyone and sorry for newbie question (considering that I don't know too much about Altera FPGA) but I don't find the answer to that error either on Altera documentation or in this for...
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8 years ago

Hi,

1. Refer page 79 :https://www.altera.com/content/dam/altera-www/global/en_us/pdfs/literature/manual/tclscriptrefmnl.pdf

Check the examples session for syntax.

Also, refer to the previous thread which may help you.

https://alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45314

https://alteraforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13696

Maybe Flash is encrypted because of which we are getting this error.

Try the examine option from the programmer itself instead of Nios shell.

Best Regards,

Anand Raj Shankar

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