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Altera_Forum
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20 years agothanks BadOmen's answer, and i think i had found the key to settle the problem.
Some background: The Nios dev boards have a feature for implementing and demonstrating remote reconfiguration of the Stratix/Cyclone device. This is implemented by a single IO which is connected to the board's MAX7128 configuration controller - if the FPGA asserts this IO, the MAX device will follow the power-on configuration sequence in an attempt to boot the FPGA with (presumably) a new FPGA configuration stored in flash. However, if this pin is not used in your design, and is not reserved as tri-stated, the pin could (and does) float to tell the MAX device to perform re-configuration. ¡ª¡ª by Jesse. so in normal times, if your project didn't have nios, u have to set all the unused pins as input & tri-state. but when i use signaltapII ,this setting didn't work. so i connect the pld_RECONFIGREQ_n pin to a vcc, that the FPGA wouldn't sent a reconfig require to CPLD. luckly the signaltapII can work now!!!