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13 years ago

NIOS II and Cyclone III Remote Update

Have spent several days now searching and reading and think I am nearly there... but not quite. I am using the NIOS II core with SOPC builder. I use Quartus II for the FPGA image. This is a projec...
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12 years ago

You must enable the watchdog feature in the factory software before triggering the reconfiguration; then you clear it in the application software. This way if fpga is configured but software doesn't start, the watchdog would reset back to the factory image.