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17 years ago

VHDL Porting from Altera to Actel

Hi Guys, I am currently designing a FPGA based camera system for a small satellite, its for my masters thesis. As my knowledge is very limited to fpga and vhdl its quite a learning curve. My Qu...
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Can I use something like PROM as a bootloader, for when a error occurs just reload the device. An FPGA can be remotely reconfigured right ??

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I think it is not so easy. If an error occurs on the configuration RAM when the FPGA is already running, you will not detect that (correct me if this is not true). This is not solved by using TMR registers or other radhard techniques, because it produces a direct hardware change, for instance, selecting input b instead of a in a mux21.