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Honored ContributorCan an FPGA reset itself?
Hello forum members, I'm using a Cyclone IV board and would like to drive the configuration from a microcontroller attached to some pins on its expansion header, as follows: * on power-up,...
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Honored ContributorI'm afraid that Ethernet is not really an option for me.
A few other thoughts on this: * have the microcontroller plug into JTAG as well, and then program either EPCS or FPGA that way * just tell people to press the config button manually, but... * if I have overwrite the pass-through bitstream, then recovery from a bad one becomes an issue If there is no solution, I'm afraid I'll have to modify the board after all, and tie the config button to an I/O pin.
