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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

Hi,

well, there's another option for you: use an EPCS to store the Cyclone II's configuration and then use the CFI to store the Cyclone III's configurations.

As far as why the devkits use MAX-II, that will depend on the devkit.

On some, such as the DE2 board, the MAX-II is there as part of the USB<->JTAG interface. It has nothing to do with the PFL.

I don't know if there's any devkit that uses PFL.