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12 years ago

Anti Fuse Programmed FPGA

Dear all, I am wondering about Anti Fuse technology. Can anyone briefly describe here what is the main difference beteen Anti Fuse technology and other technologies for FPGA ? The FPGA...
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12 years ago

Hi,

as you already mentioned, the Anti-Fuse FPGA are one time programmable only but on the other hand these units are operational on power on, i.e. these units do not need to be configured by a datastream first.

For programming and testing there are meanwhile Anti-Fuse "replacement" devices that can be programmed several times but are pin replacements (i.e. the hardware "around" the FPGA is like on serial hardware).