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16 years ago

know factory settings for CycloneIII

Hi, I am new to FPGA designs. I want to Develop a board which will have a CycloneIII device. This device has to be configured by an parallel flash (P30). I am really confused abt the first t...
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16 years ago

Yes, the FPGA has a flash controller, that's the reason why you have to use dedicated pins for the flash. The selection of active parallel (flash) configuration is through hardware pinstrapping with MSEL pins.

For initial flash programming, a JTAG interface should be additionally provided.