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Altera_Forum
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17 years ago

Protecting EPCS

i posted this in the software forum, but perhaps it's really a hardware issue: For my project, the EPCS contains all firmware, boot loader & application. The firmware and bootloader ...
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17 years ago

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i posted this in the software forum, but perhaps it's really a hardware issue:

According to cyc_c51014.pdf, only the upper areas of EPCS can be protected, not the lower areas.

So I can protect my application but not the firmware&bootloader (or protect everything).

Is this correct?

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"the upper areas of EPCS can be protected, not the lower areas."

This is the weired thing when i saw this part of the document. Why Altera try to protect the application part, not the default part? Or just our understanding problem?