BECKHOFF EL9800 Basisplatine - Manual (Page 28)

Altera Quartus II Programmer™
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3 Altera Quartus II Prog
rammer™
Using the onboard FPGA-Programmer interface described in chapter 2.9, FPGAs from the manufacturer
Altera can be programmed with. Therefore the programming software Altera Quartus II Programmer
™
can be downloaded from the Altera website ( www.altera.com ) for free, which runs independent from the
Quartus ™ development environment.
Figure 17 Qua rtus II Programmer™
In the following the steps necessary to program a FPGA-based EtherCAT postage stamp are described:
1. Choose the programming hardware
2. Conversion of the SOF-File in the JIC format
3. Selecting the program file
4. Programming of a FPGA or EEPROM