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.SH NAME
flexloader \- GPL utility to configure SRAM base 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 base ALTERA devices.
It downloads a code to the device SRAM using the ALTERA ByteBlaster
or a clone. 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.