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18 years ago

Is cyclone II reconfigurable?

Hi Folks, I'm pretty new to Altera FPGA systems. I intend to do a project related which deals with a low-cost reconfigurable architecture and I'm intend to use a Cyclone II EP2C20F484C7 device....
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18 years ago

Hello,

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If your system can tolerate the down-time during reload, then you will be fine.

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You hit the point. None of Altera FPGAs offers dynamic or partial reconfiguration of central logic function, the refconfiguraion option present in some newer devices is restricted to PLL or GXB interfaces. Thus the configuration as a whole has to be swapped to change logic definition. In this field, competitors are one step ahead.

Regards,

Frank