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15 years ago

Remotely resetting FPGA via JTAG ?

The Quartus II programmer automatically releases the FPGA from reset after downloading an image into it (or a flash device connected to it). I would like to be able to reset the FPGA without h...
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15 years ago

You most likely have noticed, that the Altera Programmer tool has an option to reconfigure the FPGA after e.g. downloading a serial flash image. I didn't yet check how it's done, but I remember to have heard about generic boundary scan commands used for this action. Otherwise there must be an Altera specfic programming instruction for reconfiguration.