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22 years ago

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Any chance of altera doing the following: 1) write an upload stub which when it goes to upload a program it downloads the stub via jtag into memory and starts executing. 2) the stub simply...
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22 years ago

As I mentioned in another thread, the Excaliburs came with example code that ran a webserver using the embedded ARM processor. You could upload a .sof to the webserver (over Ethernet, of course) and the ARM would program the FPGA with it - that's one big advantage to having your processor in hardware. The code for that might make a good starting-point.