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18 years ago

Cyclone II Serial Config

I'm having a rather odd problem and I was wondering whether anyone else has experienced it.

I'm using an M25P40 serial prom with an EP2C20. Standard setup, in fact we reused the schematics from a previous project and repinned the FPGA. The only difference is that it's a Cyclone II instead of a Cyclone part. We've only built 4 boards and they are all flakey.

The problem is that the proms are mysteriously unprogramming themselves during normal operation. That is, the Cyclone II won't configure until the prom is reprogrammed. Sometimes the serial prom can't be reprogrammed and must be replaced.

Any ideas?

Thanks for your help.

Leslie

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    there are three possibility to access a serial config device:

    1) access over a serial interface SFL (see AN370)

    2) access over a parallel interface ASMI (see altasmi_parallel Megafunction

    User Guide)

    3) EPCS controller for NIOSII (EPCS Device Controller Core)

    Has anybody tried to get one of this IP-Cores with a STM / ST - Flash?