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16 years ago

Simple issue of Production Serialization

Hello, I am new to FPGAs, my background is microcontrollers. This seems like it should be an easy question, but I can't seem to find any information on it. What is the best way to serializ...
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16 years ago

Unfortunately, you didn't mention the involved configuaration method and device. I suppose that there are options to insert a serial number to the configuration bitsream, e.g. in the Usercode field, but it must be also readable from the FPGA logic at runtime.

In case of AS configuration, you can e.g. store the SN in an unused block and read the AS memory from your code.