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12 years ago

User POR?

I need something to use for a Power On Reset with the Cyclone II SDK. There is no external hardware POR input. Are the programming status signals CONF_DONE or INIT_DONE available to the user? Any ...
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12 years ago

My schematic picture is exactly the enable and synchronizer that you describe. The only difference is that my enable is external because the schematic and waveform simulator do not provide the internal initialization capability that you have in HDL. And yes, it is true that the FPGA will initialize the hardware as specified by the HDL. Haven't tried this in ModelSim, but if it recognizes the initialization code then it can resolve the startup conditions