QMTECH Cyclone IV EP4CE15 starter kit (works)

[inkdot7]

I'd just like to report success in programming a QMTECH Cyclone IV EP4CE15 starter kit board.

Although not listed in the board or FPGA lists, it just worked:

./openFPGALoader -v -v -c usb-blaster myproj.rbf

giving the following output:

write to ram
found 1 devices
index 0:
        idcode 0x20f20dd
        manufacturer altera
        family cyclone III
        model  EP3C16
        irlength 10
File type : rbf
Flash SRAM: [==================================================] 100.00%
Done

It should be noted that the device on the board is an EP4CE15F23C8N. According to https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/hb/cyclone-iv/cyiv-51010.pdf it has ID code 0x020f20dd, the same as EP3C16 which already is listed.

I'm especially happy that it worked, since the quartus_pgm randomly refused to work, reporting failure to scan the JTAG chain (error 87). Mostly not working.

[trabucayre]

Thanks for this report! I've updated openFPGALoader to display EP3 and/or EP4 name (this issue about idcode is true for cycloneIV and cyclone 10 too) With a correct spiOverJtag bitstream it may be possible to write to flash (I must to find a way to store compressed bitstream into repository to avoid increasing repository size). Thanks again

[trabucayre]

Hi, I have added spiOverJtag's bitstream for this board (and I've updated board list), so now you will be able to flash a bitstream into the SPI flash. It's okay to you ?

[inkdot7]

Worked for me:

openFPGALoader -c usb-blaster -b qmtechCycloneIV -f myproj.rbf

[trabucayre]

\o/ First spiOverJtag bitstream using compression! Thanks !