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8 years ago

Trouble Programming Cyclone V GX starter kit

Hi, Very new to FPGAs. Have purchased the Terasic Cyclone V GX starter kit and am using Quartus II to program it. I am testing the board with some basic or gate code attached to the on-boa...
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8 years ago

FPGAs are based off of SRAM controlled switches, so yes, if you power cycle, you lose the design.

Using the quad SPI flash in active serial mode to program the FPGA at power up is described right in the manual: Configuring the EPCQ256 in AS Mode.