Chapter 8
Programming the
EPCQ Device
This chapter describes how to program the quad serial configuration (EPCQ) device with Serial
Flash Loader (SFL) function via the JTAG interface. Users can program EPCQ devices with a
JTAG indirect configuration (.jic) file, which is converted from a user-specified SRAM object file
(.sof) in Quartus. The .sof file is generated after the project compilation is successful. The steps of
converting .sof to .jic in Quartus II are listed below.
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1. Choose Convert Programming Files from the File menu of Quartus II, as shown in Figure
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