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Kavin
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5 years ago

Program several devices at the same time with single JTAG chain

There are several Arria 10 FPGAs in my project,and four FPGAs use the same design, i want to program these FPGAs with single JTAG chain.Serial program wil take plenty of time ,is it possible to pro...
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JohnT_Altera
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5 years ago

Hi,


If you are connecting the FPGA in the JTAG chain, then you can program all the device in the single flow but the device will be configured sequentially.


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    Kavin
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    5 years ago

    Hi JohnT,

    Thanks for reply.If these FPGAs are configured sequentially, no time will be saved. I want configure 5 FPGAs parallely, since these 5 FPGAs' bitstream is the same.

    Kavin