Forum Discussion

Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
12 years ago

Bitstream of FPGA

Hello, I have to do a work for the university. And I am a bit lost. That is exactly the bitstream of the FPGA? And as do I it generate? When I compile with Quartus II? Regards
Altera_Forum's avatar
Altera_Forum
Icon for Honored Contributor rankHonored Contributor
12 years ago

The bitstream is the file that is loaded into the FPGA at power on - FPGAs are volotile so cannot store data when the power is off. They need some method to program them at power on.

You can generate the programming file during the assembler phase of compilation in Quartus.