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  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    21 years ago

    So....

    more work vs. convenience

    and

    kinda expensive vs. really cheap.

    I guess it would depend on what your deadline was. You could always get a first release out there with an Altera EPCS device and then change to one of the suggested replacements.

    I wonder how hard it would be, however, to get these devices to understand Cyclone/CycloneII/StratixII compression/decompression....? If you're not using compression, you'll take up more space on the device, just for the SOF(s).

    Cheers,

    - slacker
  • Altera_Forum's avatar
    Altera_Forum
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    21 years ago

    really cheap is normally a compelling argument for most things!

    some related talk at: http://www.fpga-faq.com/archives/65400.html (http://www.fpga-faq.com/archives/65400.html) 65417 & 65418

    For Cyclone the decompressor is already in the FPGA - so these devices will support compressed bitstreams.

    As you suggest it may be possible to consider these alternatives for volume.

    http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif