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12 years ago

Passive Serial Tri-state

I am designing a Cyclone IV based board with an SPI interface that we would like to use to configure the FPGA with an MCU. We will configure the pins to toggle like Figure 8-16 (Device Handbook Vol ...
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12 years ago

Hi Dave et al,

Thank you for your help. Very useful!

In our system, we employ a NIOSII processor. So ideally we could create a single RBF composed of SOF and ELF data then load that over the PS interface. Is it possible to do it that way? (I read about the RBF file in section A.2, page 63 of the FPGA CONFIGURATION pdf)

Presently, we do something similar over JTAG with the "nios2-configure-sof" and "nios2-download" command from shell...