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Altera_Forum
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12 years agoNeed some quick advice and direction on FPGA uses for quadcopters
My Altera Cyclone IV has been an awesome education board. However, every-time power is shut off I lose my program. I was just curious if their are any FPGA's out there that don't lose their program w...
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
12 years agoFPGAs lose their configuration because they LUTs and switches are SRAM. In order to configure the device each time you power up there are configuration memory, like EPCS1, ECPS4, etc. There are SPI EEPROMs. Your board doesn't have one?