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Altera_Forum
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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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JonWay_altera
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2 years ago

OK, im helping out anyone who is facing the same problem who was sure they had the correct CLI command.

If you are getting the error as below.
Error (213008): Programming option string "“ei" is illegal. Refer to --help for legal programming option formats.

Example: quartus_pgm -c 2 -m jtag -o "ei;device_info.txt;AGFC023R25A" --dev_info

TYPE every character (DO NOT COPY PASTE from document) into the terminal. It seems the terminal interpret the special character differently for the type-in vs copy/paste.