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13 years ago

Multiple projects/SOFs to one RBF

I have two projects, factory and application. Upon compiling each project, I have two .sof files, factory and application. I am able to convert both .sof files into one .jic. However, I'd l...
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13 years ago

It depends on how the FPGAs are configured.

For example, the board in this photo:

http://www.ovro.caltech.edu/~dwh/carma_board/

Has four Stratix II FPGAs in a passive serial daisy chain (the schematics and controller documentation are on that page).

For passive serial programming I convert each FPGA .sof to .rbf and then concatenate them together into a single binary file.

Cheers,

Dave