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13 years ago

Cyclone III Configuration Advice Required...

Hi All, I am just about to start the design & layout for my first CYCLONE III based board using the EP3C10E144C8N device. I have read a good deal on the EPCS app notes but would like some feedb...
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13 years ago

Hi Dave,

Another thought occured to me. I would like to be able to use the serial flash device to store lookup tables that are used and updated in the program. I assume that this would be possible in one serial flash (if suffieciently large) such that I can:

1) Configure FPGA

2) Load NIOS code into SDRAM

3) Store lookup tables for use by main program.

I would imgaine that as long as I make sure that I dont overwrite the config and C prgram it should be OK?

What do you think?

D