Newbie question about programming Altera Cyclone II in Quartus II

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I bought a cheap board with Altera Cyclone II from ebay and want to start experimenting.

I created a simple program, after some research I managed to compile it and after flashing to the board the programming tool said it is 100% complete.

However the behaviour of the board has not changed since the time I first plugged the power supply in(three onboard LEDs are blinking).

It looks like the program has not been loaded to the board.

I don't know what I did wrong.

Any ideas? I am completely new to FPGAs. Thank you

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Vlad On

Normally the configuration stream is written into fpga sram, and it won't live across the power cycle. If you want that configuration be "permanent", write it into on-board configuration flash chip.

Did you check with this short introduction: http://laurie.tech/start-fpga/ ?