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14 years ago

reconfiguring a FPGA with Excell

Hi, I want to reconfigure my FPGA when it is running, loaded with an initial timing file, with a timing that I wrote in MS Excel. I saw that FPGA programmers do this. How does this work? ...
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14 years ago

It cant be done with any specific FPGAs. How you interpret data sent to the FPGA via the serial is up to you. There is no "universal excel data controller" for FPGAs.

Do you know exactly what you've seen before? Im guessing someone wrote some custom software to do it.