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14 years ago

Basics questions on System ID Peripheral

Hello everyone, I am a newbie with a lot of concepts regarding FPGA. I have a question : what is exactly the System ID peripheral ? Why is it important (or not) to include it as an SOPC builde...
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14 years ago

It isn't required, because I have downloaded software onto systems without it. Eclipse will at first complain with some error message. But, all you have to do is check the "Ignore mismatched system id" when downloading the program.

Regardless, I don't think it hurts to include it.