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21 years ago

FPGA contents keep getting lost

Hi. I have just purchased an evaluation board containing an Altera Cyclone (EP1C12Q240C6). (It's the dirt-cheap one from FutureElectronics.com) I have blundered around with Quartus I...
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21 years ago

Read it...

The FPGA's we used in university were one-shot devices: you burned them and that was it.

The guys at the office just told me that newer, reprogrammable FPGAs load their configurations from a flash memory.

I guess I was overriding the configuration via JTAG, but not overwriting the configuration flash memory.

Thanks for the tip, though... without it I wouldn&#39;t have asked any questions at the office. http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif