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16 years ago

Question about configuring Cyclone device

Hi, I have a cyclone3 chip and tried to download sof file into the chip. My problem is that the code run only after configuration, while when I power off and then power on FPGA board, the syste...

Altera_Forum

Honored Contributor

16 years ago

This is absolutly normal.

Cyclone FPGA are SRAM based and have no nonvolatile stuff inside (like other devices)

thats why you need external configuration devices.

Just check this about Cyclone 3 family

http://www.altera.com/products/devices/cyclone3/cy3-index.jsp

and this pdf explaining the configuration

http://www.altera.com/literature/hb/cyc3/cyc3_ciii51016.pdf

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