EPCS 3rd Party replacement?

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.

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