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Protect a Sector on the EPCS/EPCQ/EPCQ-L Device

Use the sector_protect signal to instruct the IP core to protect a sector on the EPCS/EPCQ/EPCQ-L

device.

Figure 5: Protecting a Sector

This figure shows an example of the latency when the Altera ASMI Parallel IP core is executing the sector

protect command. The latency shown does not correctly reflect the true processing time. It shows the

command only.

This command writes the EPCS/EPCQ/EPCQ-L status register to set the block protection bits.

The block protection bits show which sectors are protected from write or erase, and provide

protection in addition to that provided by the wren signal.

You can set the block protection bits in the EPCS/EPCQ/EPCQ-L status register to protect those

sectors that contain configuration data, and are not intended for general-purpose memory usage.

Ensure that the 8-bit code is available on the datain[7..0] signal before asserting the

sector_protect and wren signals. The IP core registers the sector_protect signal at the

positive edge of the clkin signal.

The IP core asserts the busy signal as soon as it receives the sector_protect signal. The busy

signal remains asserted while the EPCS/EPCQ/EPCQ-L status register is written.

If the wren signal has a value of zero, the IP core will not carry out the sector_protect signal,

and the busy signal remains deasserted.

Note:

If you keep the wren and sector_protect signals asserted while the busy signal is

deasserted after the IP core has finished processing the sector protect command,

the IP core re-registers the wren and sector_protect signals as a value of one and

carries out another write status register operation. Therefore, before the IP core

deasserts the busy signal, you must deassert the sector_protect signal.

The IP core uses only bits 2 to 3, or 2 to 4 for EPCS devices, and 2 to 5, or 2 to 6 for EPCQ/EPCQ-

L devices out of the 8 bits for block protection. The rest of the bits have other meanings for the

ASMI operation, and cannot be overwritten by the sector protect operation. Whenever the input

address is in a protected sector, the IP core omits the operation and the busy signal remains

deasserted.

UG-ALT1005

2014.12.15

Protect a Sector on the EPCS/EPCQ/EPCQ-L Device

Altera ASMI Parallel IP Core User Guide

Altera Corporation

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