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10 years ago

Want to determine which version of firmware the FPGA is loaded with

Greetings!

I have a StratixV dev kit and am using quartus II 64-bit software. A long time ago, some version of firmware was stored in the FPGA and no one knows which version it was.

Is there a way to read back the checksum of the firmware the FPGA is loaded with using quartus or some other tool?

I'm very green to Altera chips and their software, so please be specific as possible.

Thanks,

Jason

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    Altera_Forum
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    10 years ago

    If you have a bunch of .sof files and you're wondering which one is on there - you can use the verify function of the programmer.

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    10 years ago

    Hi Tricky,

    Thank you for your response. Your suggestion was one of the first things I tried doing. Unfortunately the verify button on the programmer gui is not selectable and I don't know why that is. Perhaps that's what I need help with figuring out?