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16 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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16 years ago

Thanks for your help so far everyone, I believe I have the epcs wired correctly, however once I flash my device using the quartus programmer, I don't think it is loading onto the FPGA. To test this I wired an multiple IO pins to ground vcc and PWMs generated in firmware and then flashed the board. None of the pins behaved any differently that before I programmed the EPCS. If my connection was miswired would I get an error during the download stage? Any other thoughts would be appreciated.