Altera SoC Embedded Design Suite - Manual (Page 194)

Option Short
Option
Required Description
--operation -o Yes This option specifies the operation to be
performed. The following operations are
supported:
• I: Read IDCODE of SOC device and
discover Access Port
• S: Read Silicon ID of the flash
• E: Erase flash
• B: Blank-check flash
• P: Program flash
• V: Verify flash
• EB: Erase and blank-check flash
• BP: Program <BlankCheck> flash
• PV: Program and verify flash
• BPV: Program (blank-check) and verify
flash
• X: Examine flash
Note: The program begins with erasing
the flash operation before
programming the flash by default.
--addr -a Yes (if the start
address is not 0)
This option specifies the start address of the
operation to be performed.
--size -s No This option specifies the number of bytes of
data to be performed by the operation.
size
is
optional.
--repeat -t
No
These options must be used together. The
HPS BOOT flow supports up to four images
where each image is identical and these
options duplicate the operation data;
therefore you do not need eSW to create a
large file containing duplicate images.
repeat
specifies the number of duplicate
images for the operation to perform.
interval
specifies the repeated address. The
default value is 64 kilobytes (KB).
repeat
and
interval
are optional.
--interval -i
HPS Flash Programmer Command Line Examples
Type
quartus_hps --help
to obtain information about usage. You can also type
quartus_hps
--help=
to obtain more details about each option. For example "quartus_hps --help=o".
9-4 HPS Flash Programmer Command Line Examples
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Altera Corporation HPS Flash Programmer User Guide
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