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9 years ago

Programmatic Reset/Reconfig of Cyclone FPGA

Due to a funny situation, I need to programmatically trigger reboot/reconfiguration of my Cyclone IV E device. I mean that I need to reset/reconfigure the device from inside my VHDL code. Ba...
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9 years ago

The ENABLE_NCONFIG_FROM_CORE sounded a little too good to be true. From Altera:

"The ACF variable ENABLE_NCONFIG_FROM_CORE was actually only applicable to MAX 10 devices and, after a little digging I've found that this variable is actually no longer supported and has been removed as a feature.

"There is no way to toggle nCONFIG from within the core of our FPGAs other than via the Remote Update IP."

Cheers,

Alex