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13 years ago

Triggering device reconfiguration from inside a Stratix IV?

Is there a way to trigger a Stratix IV device to reconfigure itself from an active serial (EPCS) device without using an external CPLD to toggle the reconfiguration pins? I know there's an ALTR...
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13 years ago

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On an existing board, or are you trying to design such a feature into a board?

If you were to drive nCONFIG low, I suspect you could trigger a reconfiguration sequence.

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This would be an existing board. We did figure out a hack that would allow driving nCONFIG low from an external CPLD on this board, but if there's an easy way to trigger it internally, that would probably be cleaner and better.