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13 years ago

EP4GX110DF27 remote update with EPCS16 ?

Hi, I have a cyclone IV GX linked with an EPCS 16 in AS mode. I would like to store 2 conf files (factory+user) and use remote mode. EPCS16 seems to be too small to store 2sof converted ...
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13 years ago

Actually the FPGA handbook each have a configuration chapter that has a table giving the configuration file sizes. Have a look at this one (http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/cyclone-iv/cyiv-51008.pdf), page 8-4 and 8-5. The uncompressed configuration size for an EP4CGX110 is 39,425,016 bits so you already need serious compression to even fit one FPGA image in an EPCS16.