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Altera_Forum
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7 years ago

Cyclone V GT PCIe link

Hello, I am trying to set up a Cyclone V GT Development Board in a PCIe slot of a desktop running Ubuntu 16.04 Essentially, what I would ideally have is the board in the PCIe port of the Linux ...
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7 years ago

You must create your custom board where FPGA programmed by some microcontroller in your favorite mode. Once you have such startup​ system, you will be able to change firmware inside flash IC through same microcontroller and PCIe link. Of course all this is not so easy, but if you have serious plans of updating firmware in such a way then dev board is not enough for you I think.