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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

Now to the point raised by the prior post, agreed, the external logic is committed to the IO pins, and as such, one could most likely design internal reprogrammable functions that could adaptively mutate their functions under NIOS II control, effectively achieving partial reconfiguration (of sorts) without the need to fully reload the entire FPGA array.

It just depends on what you are trying to do, the time frame you are (need) to get it done in, and how parallelly expansive you allow your mind to think (float).

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