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CHAPTER 11: PROGRAMMING & CONFIGURATION
PROGRAMMING ONE OR MORE DEVICES BY USING THE PROGRAMMER
186 ■ INTRODUCTION TO QUARTUS II ALTERA CORPORATION
Programming One or More Devices
by Using the Programmer
The Quartus II Programmer allows you to edit a CDF, which stores device
name, device order, and optional programming file name information for a
design. You can use a CDF to program or configure a device with one or
more SOFs, POFs, or with a single Jam File or Jam Byte-Code File.
The following steps describe the basic flow for programming one or more
devices by using the Programmer:
1. Connect Altera programming hardware to your system and install any
necessary drivers.
2. Perform a full compilation of the design, or at least run the Analysis &
Synthesis, Fitter, and Assembler modules of the Compiler. The
Assembler automatically creates SOFs and POFs for the design.
3. Open the Programmer to create a new CDF. Each open Programmer
window represents one CDF; you can have multiple CDFs open, but
you can program using only one CDF at a time.
4. Select a programming hardware setup. The programming hardware
setup you select affects the types of programming modes available in
the Programmer.
Altera programming hardware Altera Programming Unit User Guide,
MasterBlaster Serial/USB Communications
Cable User Guide, ByteBlaster II Download
Cable User Guide, ByteBlasterMV Download
Cable User Guide, USB-Blaster Download
Cable User Guide, and EthernetBlaster
Download Cable User Guide on the Altera
web site
Programming hardware installation Quartus II Installation & Licensing for PCs
and Quartus II Installation & Licensing for
UNIX and Linux Workstations manuals
Device-specific programming
information
The Configuration Handbook on the Altera
web site
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