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18 years ago

Booting of Cyclone

I have some questions about booting a Cyclone FPGA (EP1C3 or EP1C6). I'm making a design that has an ARM7 microcontroller and a Cyclone FPGA. I'd like to store the program for the FPGA inside the ...
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18 years ago

The boot time partly depends on the design size - if compressed bitstreams are used, which is generally advisable. The nominal configuration bitstream size defines the upper bound for boot time then.