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14 years ago

Use spare memory in Active Serial configuration scheme

Hello, In my design I configure a Cyclone FPGA with a EPCS1 memory in the Active Serial scheme. I would like to use the free space of the memory for the application. Is there any document that tel...
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14 years ago

The free space depends on the size of your design. There is no fixed free space, the free space is everything that is after the FPGA image. IF you don't use compression then this image has a fixed size (documented in the handbook) and if you use compression then you can assume it will be less, but there is no guarantee the size will be under any precise value.