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17 years ago

Configuring an FPGA without JTAG

Hello everyone, I am fairly new to FPGAs so forgive me if I ask a stupid question. I have recently moved my Cyclone III board from a starter kit and am trying to make it work on its own on a PCB boa...
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17 years ago

You can configure the EPCS device directly through active serial programming. Now obviously you did not put down a header to enable you to do this so you're going to have to solder some wires to the pins of the EPCS device to allow you to do this.

Please read the section entitled "Programming serial configuration devices" in the following document:

http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/cyc3/cyc3_ciii51010.pdf

For future reference ... always put JTAG on your board. :)

Jake