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Hello, I have a very small board containing ethernet phy, sdram and cyclone III fpga only. The fpga upload is done from another board, which has microcontroller on it, using passive serial mode. T...
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Honored ContributorYes. All the bootloaders I know re-load the application on reset.
In theory you could change the bootloader code so that it detects a reset condition and chooses to directly jump to the application instead of waiting for a new binary file. You should be vary careful with this though, as all the static variables with initialization will keep the value they had before reset instead of being reinitialized to their default value. This could break your code (or some drivers).
