Specifications

CHAPTER 11: PROGRAMMING & CONFIGURATION
CREATING SECONDARY PROGRAMMING FILES
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6. If you want to create I/O Pin State Files, choose Create/Update >
Create/Update IPS File (File menu), and in the ISP CLAMP State
Editor dialog box (File menu), specify the appropriate ISP CLAMP state
pin settings and specify a name for the file.
Converting Programming Files
You can use the Convert Programming Files dialog box (File menu) to
combine and convert SOFs or POFs for one or more designs into other
programming file formats for use with different configuration schemes. For
example, you can add a remote update-enabled SOF to a POF for Remote
Update, which is used to program a configuration device in remote update
configuration mode, or you can convert a Programmer Object File into a
HEXOUT File for EPC16 for use by an external host. Or you can convert a
POF into a Raw Programming Data File for use with some configuration
devices. You can also convert SOFs or POFs into JTAG Indirect
Configuration Files, which you can use to program the configuration data
for a Cyclone
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device into an EPCS1 or EPCS4 serial configuration device.
You can use the Convert Programming Files dialog box to set up output
programming files by arranging the chain of SOFs stored in a HEXOUT File
for SRAM, POFs, Raw Binary Files, or Tabular Text Files, or by specifying a
POF to be stored in a HEXOUT File for EPC16. The settings you specify in
the Convert Programming Files dialog box are saved to a Conversion Setup
File (.cof) that contains information such as device and file names, device
order, device properties, and file options. Figure 5 shows the Convert
Programming Files dialog box.