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8 years ago

Cyclone V Configuration Devices

I've got a Terasic Cyclone V GX development board. I removed the EPCQ256 configuration device and am testing two other alternatives (Macronix MX25L257 and Cypress S25FL128). I created a simple proj...
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8 years ago

ilkkak,

Seems like we should be ok. I'm using the WSON 6x5 package, but surely that does not matter. As I understand the download process (my second image above), it downloads the Serial Flash Loader to the FPGA and then uses that as bridge to download the bits to the FLASH. So I should not need to instantiate SFL as implied in AN370.