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Offline BerniTopic starter

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Altera standalone programmer tool, gone from the internet?
« on: February 20, 2023, 08:29:35 am »
I want to give a costumer a quick firmware update for a Altera MAX CPLD. So i want to give them the simple standalone programmer software to get the firmware in via JTAG. However looking for it i found that there new overlords at Intel have completely replaced the download pages.

As a result all the old links are now redirecting to this generic download page:
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/collections/products/fpga/software/downloads.html?s=Newest

You can get the old IDEs reasonably far back, as it should be since you often need a old IDE to compile for an old device. But they seam to have forgot any of the other extra tools (like the standalone programmer). So it seams you have to download the entire IDE of 8+ GB and then to install it it needs 25GB of space. Then you probably also need to register and get a free license from Intel to use it etc..

What the hell Intel? If you are going to update the website to be in your new wanky modern style at least carry over all the downloads.

Am i missing something here? Or is a whole overkill IDE+license the new workflow for simply loading a CPLDs bitstream over JTAG?
 

Offline Daixiwen

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Re: Altera standalone programmer tool, gone from the internet?
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2023, 11:55:38 am »
I agree that the Intel web site is horrible, but when I clicked into the link for the latest version of Quartus Lite, I could find the programmer in the "Additional Software" category.

Of course whether 1.28 GB is a reasonable size for a programmer is another question...
 
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Offline BerniTopic starter

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Re: Altera standalone programmer tool, gone from the internet?
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2023, 01:37:32 pm »
Oh thank you!

Yeah i must have missed it with there crap website design. Yeah 1.2GB for a damn programmer is not great, but at least it is not the 25GB of the full IDE.
 

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Re: Altera standalone programmer tool, gone from the internet?
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2023, 11:47:57 pm »
If all you want is the programmer tool for the Altera MAX series parts (ie, EPM7K), then the download for 13.0sp1 programmer only:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/software-kit/711791/intel-quartus-ii-web-edition-design-software-version-13-0sp1-for-windows.html

(go to Additional Software tab) is only 136MB.
 

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Re: Altera standalone programmer tool, gone from the internet?
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2023, 07:45:01 pm »
https://github.com/trabucayre/openFPGALoader

Would this work ? I use it on Kintex7 stuff
 
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