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9 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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9 years ago

Simplest would be a micro SD. If you use an on board serial flash, you will need to program each of your boards which is slow. With an SD or micro SD, you can program several at the same time on a PC and just slot them into the board. The default software is set up to boot that way so no engineering hoops to jump through to configure everything differently to boot from serial flash. Also, SD cards hold much more data than serial flash and are much faster.