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Altera_Forum
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14 years ago

How does the Cyclone start when power up ?

Thanks for valuable advice from the forum on selection of RAM for the board. I wish to know.... how the Cyclone starts when powerd on ? Where does it take the code from ??? What is ...
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14 years ago

So provided i have a

  • large enough EPCS device

  • do a flash programming of ELF and SOF file

  • my program memory pointing to Onchip/SRAM/Flash etc (Bottleneck will be the speed of the respective devices ??)

my device can work standalone on every power up ? Am i correct ? I am slowly getting grip of the technology, please bear the ignorance.