Generic Serial Flash Interface Intel® FPGA IP User Guide

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Date 11/09/2023
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1.9. Intel HAL Driver

The HAL API is available for this controller in the following software files:
  • intel_generic_serial_flash_interface_top.h
  • intel_generic_serial_flash_interface_top.c

These files implement the Generic Serial Flash Interface core device driver for the HAL system library.

Intel HAL supports a number of generic device model classes including one for device flashes. Developing against these generic classes gives a consistent interface for driver functions so that the HAL can access the driver functions uniformly.

A HAL API application begins by calling alt_flash_open_dev() to open the flash device, which returns a file handle to a flash device. You can obtain the IP name from system.h. All offset-related variables are based on absolute addressing to the flash memory.

HAL API supports the following QSPI flash device families:

  • Micron (MT25QL and MT25QU variants)
  • Cypress (S25FL-S and S25FS-S variants)
  • Macronix (MX25L and MX66U variants)
  • Winbond (W25Q variant)
  • GigaDevice (GD55LB variant)
  • ISSI (I25LP and I25WP variants)
Note: The Intel HAL Driver is supported in Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software only.
Note: Enable altera_safelib in BSP Software Package from BSP Editor to use the HAL API for Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro Edition software version prior to 21.4.
Note: Flash_Timeout is configurable in the Board Support Package Editor with the default value of 700000 microseconds (0.7 seconds).