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16 years ago

MAX II reprogramming cycles?

Hello guys. I am wondering what the "erase and reprogram cycles" of 100, that is stated for the Altera MAX II CPLD, physically mean. Does this mean I can only program a source code into ...
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16 years ago

you're right, you can only erase the MAXII's internal flash up to 100 times to still be in the operating specs. in a non-production environment you can probably push it out past 100 erases, but you may want to think about getting a small FPGA dev kit which is SRAM based. an FPGA won't have the same issue with erases as CPLD flash memory.