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Altera_Forum
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13 years ago

General questions about memories, configuration and FPGA systems.

Hi, I have done some research on the forum about the topic, but i have still some questions and want to verify and sum up everything. In my questions about system configuration i will refer to ...
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12 years ago

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Hi,

2. System configuration.

I have found out that EPCS configuration memories are quite expensive, that's why people usually

don't use them, right ?

Let's stick for a while with that memory anyway.

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EPCS is not the only devices you can use; people substitute with "generic" serial flash devices like M25 family from ST.

This blog summarizes, but is badly out of date cost-wise:

http://fpgaforum.blogspot.com/2006/03/any-replacement-for-altera-epcs_19.html