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Altera_Forum
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12 years ago

Configure FPGA dynamically at run-time

Hello, I'm trying to change the FPGA configuration at run time using one of the generic SD images. I'm using the Ubuntu image from Terasic at the moment and the goal is to boot to Linux using t...
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12 years ago

I'm sure it's possible in some way. The User Manual hints at the MSEL switch configuration for programming from Linux, and Cyclone V manual seems to indicate the FPGA manager is the mechianism. Lastly, http://rocketboards.org/foswiki/documentation/gsrd131programmingfpga has a procedure very similar to what I'm looking for but I don't think it's for the DE1-SoC, since I don't have all of the directories listed in the instructions.

In the meantime I'll keep probing.