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15 years ago

Confused with Remote Configuration

My board has Stratix II , EPCS64 device and RS422 UART on it, RS422 UART is used for comunication with PC. I try to build design that will remotely update and trigger the reconfiguration of Stratix I...
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15 years ago

You can avoid the generating of the pgm pins by specifying the ACTIVE_SERIAL_REMOTE operation mode in the MegaWizard. Refer to the Remote Update Circuitry (ALTREMOTE_UPDATE) Megafunction User Guide page 2-3

(see altera page subdirectory /literature/ug/ug_altremote.pdf)

For reconfigure the Stratix with application image you have to write the epcs sector address (where is your user configuration stored) to the page select parameter of remote update function. Then assert a "1" to the reconfig pin.

Jens