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17 years ago

Stratix III Remote Update

Hi all, for a Stratix III design I'm trying to choose an embedded reconfiguration scheme. Ideally I want to select a scheme where I can update the configuration device via a serial port with...
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17 years ago

1 - Correct.

2 - Not really. Some flash devices have the ability to lock certain flash blocks but the EPCS devices do not support this. You don't really need to worry about the flash getting corrupted itself. The only risk is if your program mistakenly overwrites the factory image which you should be able to control to a reasonable extent.

Jake