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9 years ago

Regenerate a new FPGA bin file with different .mif files - from .sof file ?

Hello, I have a design (on Stratix3) that contains several .mif files to initialize internal memories . With a small script I am able to rebuild a new FPGA bin file without doing the full P...
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8 years ago

No. Altera don't publish the structure of the .sof files and they don't have any (published) tools that digest the files. Only the programming tools to use them. Yes, the info must be in there - it initialises the memories. However, fishing that info out is not practical.

Cheers,

Alex