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17 years ago

Remote system upgrade

Hi all, Iam a beginner to altera FPGA ,Iam using the Remote system update IP core in my project,there's no information on it in the quartusll handbook ,so can any please provide me the...
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17 years ago

Correct. The EPCS controller basically provides you with read/write access to the serial flash device (EPCS). Obviously you need this if you plan to dynamically update the contents of the EPCS via the NIOS processor.

The remote update controller is a combination of firmware and hard silicon within the FPGA that allows you to dynamically reload the FPGA with a new firmware image and provides sufficient circuitry to recover from a failed configuration attempt (like if your image was bad).

Jake