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16 years ago

FPGA cyclone4 and EPCS16

I am mew to this field. I am using cyclone 4 FPGA.I want to configure automatically when power up.So i found AS mode with EPCS16 and JTAG.As give on handbook ,i need maximum around 9 MB RAM.So i ...
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16 years ago

The configuration file size depends on the device. Since no Cyclone IV requires 9MBytes (72Mbit), I presume your device is a EP4CE30 or EP4CE40 which require about 9 Mbit.

In which cases, yes, AS+JTAG with an EPCS16 will do just fine.