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KHann6
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6 years ago

How to maintain a NIOS based product with field upgrade for 10-20 years, I.e. across several generations of configuration flash chips?

This is a specific problem for NIOS SOC users doing field upgrades and encountering End-Of-Life on configuration flash chips. How to build a NIOS SOC system that can support multiple configuration f...
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EricMunYew_C_Intel
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6 years ago

Hi, Hann


The flash controller inside the FPGA or image will normally determine which flash chips it can communicate with. Normally the FPGA hardware allows 20 years field upgradability if the flash chip allows 20 years of life cycle. Am I answering your question ?


Thanks.


Eric