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21 years ago

EPCS 3rd Party replacement?

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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