Quartus Programmer Command-Line Problem

Altera_Forum · ‎01-31-2005

Hello,

I try to configure the FPGA via NiosII Shell (NiosII 1.1) and Quartus Programmer using the following line:

[SOPC Builder]$ quartus_pgm --cable="USB-Blaster [USB-0]" --mode=jtag --operation=p;test.pof

The line looks correct for me but I get an error message:

Error: Programming option string "p" is illegal. Refer to --help for legal programming option formats.

Any idea, why the option p for programming is wrong?!?!?!?

Thanks,

damc

Altera_Forum · ‎01-31-2005

try this:

Nios-sof --cable='USB-Blaster [USB-0]' <path and file name you want to download>

Make sure to use forward slashes for your path and file name. This will in turn make a call to the Quartus programmer, but make sure you are programming the .sof and not the .pof file.

Altera_Forum · ‎01-31-2005

Thanks BadOmen,

didn't knew nios-sof.

Damc

Altera_Forum · ‎02-01-2005

You're welcome.

I think that command is left over from the Nios I days (otherwise it would be called Nios2-sof).

Altera_Forum · ‎02-07-2005

Using nios-sof is often easier.

But just for reference, I think your problem with the command line is that you put a semicolon into the arguments. Under shells such as bash this is a command separator. If you escape the semicolon with \ or put quotes around that argument then it should work.