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12 years ago

solution for mcu to configure ALTERA FPGA

Hello, i'm trying to use a MCU(like C8051) to configure Cyclone IV device(EP4CE30) in Passive Serial mode. In the past, i was using GPIO of MCU to simulate the configure timing. But configure sp...
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12 years ago

Thanks for your reply. Yes. Micro processor can access the flash from the SPI master inside FPGA image. I have one concern that what if the power failure happens during programming the flash. Then the data inside flash is not complete. When power on again, the SPI master in FPGA won't work anymore if the configuration data in the flash is corrupted. Is there a way to recover from such kind of failure?