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12 years ago

Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration & Direct Bitstream File Manipulation

Hi people, Three questions: What are the Altera FPGAs and their respective development kits that work with DPR (Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration)? Is there any Altera software prod...
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12 years ago

Jaraqui,

Both Stratix V and Cyclone V support partial reconfiguration. There may be others too.

I'm not sure I understand your other principle question. By 'bitstream' are you referring to the FPGA's configuration data bitstream? If so, then Altera's Quartus tool suit allows you to 'manipulate' the bitstream by way of modifying source code, device constraints and compilation. Quartus doesn't (and I don't know of any Altera or 3rd party tool that does) allow you to open the resulting FPGA configuration file (.sof) in order to 'manipulate' or change it.

There are several development boards built around Stratix V & Cyclone V devices. Refer to Altera's Development boards page for details:

http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/kit-dev_platforms.jsp (http://www.altera.com/products/devkits/kit-dev_platforms.jsp)

Regards,

Alex