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16 years agoDCLK and DATA0 connected to LVDS output instead of floating
The Cyclone II handbook says that after programming, the DCLK and DATA0 inputs should not be left floating and should therefore be connected to a logic high or low. However, it also states that th...
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16 years agoThe whole hardware design approach here is not going to work :)
First thing that you'll experience is sporadic remote FPGA reconfigurations due to noise pickup on 100 m nCONFIG line. As to ESD then "human body model" is just one of the several ESD model. There is a "machine model" and most important for you - "cable discharge model" (http://www.national.com/an/an/an-1511.pdf). They differ greatly in the ESD power they can apply to you circuit (e.g 15kV "human" is not equivalent to 15 kV "cable"). You'd need a reliable way to configure remote FPGA. You might add a small flash-based micricontroller on the remote side with LVDS-to-LVTTL buffers, send FPGA configuration data to MCU over LVDS with some CRC. And then MCU configures FPGA.