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8 years ago

Is CPLD required for booting CYCLONE 5 FPGA from QSPI flash.

in cyclone 5- fpga can’t able to fetch the program from spi flash FPGA - cyclone 5 (5cgtfd7d5f27i7n) SPI FLASH - epcq128si16n in our board only one spi flash (configuration flash) is ...
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8 years ago

No. You do not need a CPLD to boot the FPGA from FLASH.

How are your MSEL pins set?

Are you seeing a configuration clock to the FLASH device?

Do you see nSTATUS going off during configuration - indicating an error?

Cheers,

Alex