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Altera_Forum
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16 years ago

CycloneII or MAXII with the PFL?

I'm trying to implement a system which consists of a CycloneII,two Cyclone IIIs, CFI flash. I'd like to be able to use the parallel flash loader in the CII to JTAG program the flash, as well as confi...
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16 years ago

Hello,

the PFL function can be implemented in other FPGA families as well.

However, the Cyclone II does not support Active Parallel configuration, so it won't load it's configuration from the CFI Flash.

A few options:

a) drop the CFI and go with a serial flash

b) replace the Cyclone II with a Cyclone III

c) use a MAX-II to implement the PFL and configure the Cyclone II (PS) and Cyclone III (PS, PP, FPP).