Quartus ii not generating sof file

Viewed 7k times. Improve this question. Qiu 5, 10 10 gold badges 47 47 silver badges 55 55 bronze badges. San San 5 5 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges. Do you get any other error message than "failed"? DO you get the connection to the device? Are you programming the flash or directly into the FPGA? Is your configuration of the board set to the right programming mode?

There are lots of things that can be wrong, and without more info, it is kind of hard to help you. There has been a known problem on 64bit machines with the USB Blaster driver that ships with Quartus. It was usually fixed by additionally installing the stand-allone programmer from Altera, found here: altera. USB Blaster as you said was not being recognized and I installed a patch sp Now the hardware is recognized correctly but the problem is with the loading of my.

I know that the hardware is recognized because I can load the demo. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Frankie Robertson Frankie Robertson 75 2 2 silver badges 11 11 bronze badges. Log in. Install the app. Contact us. Close Menu. Welcome to EDAboard. To participate you need to register. Registration is free.

Click here to register now. Register Log in. Selecting Active Serial mode limits the choices of configuration devices in the Configuration device list to the erasable programmable configurable serial configuration EPCS devices. Selecting Active Parallel mode limits the choices of configuration devices in the Configuration device list to CFI devices. Input files to convert:.

The contents of the Input files to convert list varies depending on the configuration device and programming file type combinations. Add Hex Data:. Opens the Add Hex Data dialog box. Add SOF Page:. Adds SOF data to the Input files to convert pane, which allows you to store data from other. Add File:. The command you gave in the question seems reasonable at first glance, I assumed the problem you were having was getting it to execute from the TCL script.

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