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.SH NAME
flexloader \- GPL utility to configure SRAM based ALTERA devices via the ALTERA ByteBlaster

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B flexloader 
.I [options] [parport_dev] [rbf_filename]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B flexloader
is a small utility to configure SRAM based ALTERA devices.
It downloads a code to the device SRAM using the ALTERA ByteBlaster
or compatible JTAG programmer. It dialogs with it through the parallel 
interface, using parport. Note that you should have access rights to the 
parallel port.

It should support APEX20K, FLEX10K, FLEX6000 and ACEX1K families,
though I only tested it on a FLEX10K10 device.

It currently only support files in raw binary format (.rbf), but others
format such as HEX or TTF may be implemented later.

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B "\-d, \-\-debug"
Print debug messages.
.TP
.B "\-q, \-\-quiet"
Quiet mode, don't print any message, useful when called from scripts.
.TP
.B "\-v"
Returns the program version.
.TP
.B "\-h, \-\-help"
Print help screen

.SH AUTHOR
Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>.

.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005 Aurelien Jarno

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.