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10 years ago

Smallest configuration memory for Cyclon V SE SoC

Hi, I am currently designing a product(well, not me, I am just a student in an internship that was put on a project), and one of our option is to use a Cyclon V SE so we get an ARM cortex running lin...
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10 years ago

The Cyclone V SoC chips are configured by default from the same SD card or serial flash that holds the Linux kernel and file system image. There is no need for a separate configuration chip unless you want it to boot a few seconds faster. If you do decide to use a separate configuration chip, you will need the bigger one. Note that some (but not all) non Altera serial flash chips can also be used to hold Cyclone V configuration images.