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9 years ago

Simplest method to transmit a file to FPGA

Provided that one has a file that is to be transmitted down to the FPGA and it will store every byte into internal or external memory (maximum size is around 1MegaByte). What is the preferred way of ...
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9 years ago

I take this to mean that no reference design exists for this purpose,

you mean that the error correction can be implemented in software in a nios II?

since the issue of checksum has been raised, do you mean that there should be checksum for the whole file or for chunks e.g every 256 bytes? Certainly the checksum shall have to be generated and stored within the file itself too. UART does not have a means to send acknowledge signal but RS232 may have it.

Now specifically what do you imagine would be the application used to transmit the file from PC to the FPGA? I assume you envision a custom application.