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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

the In System Memory Content Editor is not a full solution, but its an easy way to update constants in the FPGA without creating a new image. it won't interface directly with Excel, you'll have to compute the new constant and type it into the Editor

beyond that its a bigger project. you could use System Console, a NIOS processor with JTAG UART, a real UART with a NIOS or state machine, etc