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14 years ago

Cyclone III configuration scheme

Hi I'm confuse with Cyclone fpga family and configuration schemes. In school we have an Altera board with a Cyclone II fpga, I know that the board use an EPC2 configuration device and w...
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14 years ago

Thanks

Then, the second scheme (JTAG) is like figure 9-30 ? http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/cyc3/cyc3_ciii51016.pdf (http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/cyc3/cyc3_ciii51016.pdf)

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When you turn power on to your board, the Cyclone device checks its MSEL pins, and determines that it needs to configured from an external SPI flash device.

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I didn't know that

How should I connect MSEL pins? according to table 9-7 all pins to GND is ok ?