Cyclone II FPGA active serial using usb blaster

Question

I'm automating programming and diagnostics for several PCBs with Cyclone II FPGA chips. Ideally I'd like to program the chips using my own program, but I could settle for a command line script. Is it possible to download a .pof file to a cyclone II without using the altera programmer? Are there open source solutions that uses usb-blaster?

Answer 1

All the tools in the Quartus II tool chain are accessible through the command-line, from the mapper (synthesis), fitter, timing-analysis, device programming...

For device programming the individual program to use is: quartus_pgm.

Here is a summary all of the command-line programs of the tool chain. You can also take a look at the "Programmer" section of the complete Quartus II manual.

Example usage :

quartus_pgm –c byteblasterII –m jtag –o bpv;design.pof